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Fcnelon's Telemaol&us. 

Sfrenne, 18mo. 893 pages. 



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Oreene^s Companion to OllendLorff's Ne\w Metliod 

of French. 12mo. 275 pages. 

First I^essons in tlie FrencU liangua^e : 



Being an Introduction to Ollendoi-fTs Larger Grammar. By G. 
"W. Greene. 16mo. 138 pages. 



standard. DFrench. Worljs. 



Ollendorff's New Metl&odl of liearning to K.ead, 

Write, and Speak the French Language.* With full Paradigms of 
the Eegular and Irregular, Auxiliary, Eeflective, and Impersonal 
Verbs. By J. L. Jewett. 12mo. 498 pages. 

KEY TO EXEECISES. Separate volume. 

Ollendorff's Ne^ir Metbod of liearning to Read, 

Write, and Speak the French Language.* With numerous Cor- 
rections, Additions, and Improvements, suitable for this Country. 
To which are added, Yalue's System of French Pronunciation, his 
Grammatical Synopsis, a new Index, and short Models of Commer- 
cial Correspondence. By Y. Yalue. 12mo. 588 pages. 

KEY TO EXEECISES. Separate volume. 

The OUendoi-ff System is founded in nature, and follows the same 
course that a child pursues in first acquiring his native tongue. It 
teaches inductively, nnderstandingly, interestingly. It does not repel 
the student in the outset by obliging him to memorize dry abstract 
language which conveys little or no idea to his mind, but It imparts its 
lessons agreeably as well as efficiently by exercises which teach the 
principles successively involved more clearly than any abstract lan- 
guage can. Yai^ub's and Jeavett's works are essentially the same, 
though differing somewhat in their arrangement and the additions 
that have been made to the original. 

Prof. Greene's Introduction will be found useful for young be- 
ginners. In it are presented the fundamental principles of the lan- 
guage, carefully culled out, and illustrated with easy exercises. It 
paves the way for the larger works, preparing the pupiFs mind for 
their more comprehensive course, and awakening in it a desire for 
further knowledge. 

RoTvan's Modern French Reader : With a Yocabulary 
of the New and Difficult Words and Idiomatic Phrases adopted in 
Modern French Literature. Edited by J. L. Jewett. 12mo. 
841 pages. 

Roemer's Elementary Frencli Reader. With an 
Analytical Study of the French Lartguage, a Treatise on French 
Poetry, and a Dictionary of Idioms, Proverbs, Peculiar Expres- 
sions, &c. By J. Eoemer, LL.D., Professor of the French Lan- 
guage and Literature in the New York Free Academy. 12mo. 
29T pages. 

Roemer's Second Frencia Reader. Illustrated with His- 
torical, Geographical, and Philological Notes. 478 pages. 

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Giitta cavat lapidem non vi sed s^pe cadendo. 



THE MASTERY SERIES, 



FRENCH. 



BY 

THOMAS PEENDEEGAST, 

AUTHOR OF ' THE MASTERY OF LANGUAGES ; OR, THE ART OF SPEAKIXG 

FOREIGN TONGUES IDIOMATICALLY ' ; AND ' HANDBOOK 

TO THE MASTERY SERIES.' 



y^^JiTEW EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED. 




NEW YOEK: 
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 

90, 92 & 94 GRAND STREET. 
1870. 



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PEE FAO E 



The Mastery System is based upon the principles of 
the natural process pursued by children in learning for- 
eign languages, when they associate with foreigners, after 
they have learned to speak their mother-tongue. They are 
impelled by instinct to imitate and repeat the chance sen- 
tences which they hear spoken around them ; and, after- 
wards, to interchange and transpose the words so as to 
form new combinations. In the process of nature there is 
no teaching. But children learn to speak foreign tongues 
idiomatically without instruction of any kind — without 
even the aid of an interpreter. 

In the Manuals this process is systematized. 

As to the Language, — Long sentences are selected upon 
a new principle, and shorter sentences, or Variations, are 
evolved from them by rearranging those words and ex- 
cluding all others. These Variations are all complete 
idiomatic sentences. The primary sentences are divided 
into sections, each of which, with some of its Variations, 
forms a short lesson. 

The Sentences comprise those specialities of the mech- 
anism of the language which it is most important that the 
beginner should Master before he attempts to converse. 

The Variations are so devised that by mastering 100 
words, the beginner obtains the free and habitual com- 
mand of 100 complete sentences, with many more latent* 
Variations in reserve. 

As to the Grammar, — The study is to be deferred until 

* See Handbook to tlie Mastery Series. 



4 PREFACE. 

tWs brief initiatory course of Mastery has been completed, 
and then it will be found that a large stock of gram- 
matical knowledge of the language has been already at- 
tained without the use of a single technical term, of any 
rules, or of any instructions whatsoever. In this Manual 
that knowledge is conveyed distributively, but not less 
effectively, than in the more scholastic plan of the 
German. 

As to the Learner, — His course of proceeding is regu- 
lated upon a new principle which ensures the accurate 
retention, by the memory, of all the sentences learned 
from day to day. As all other forms of speech are ex- 
cluded, and as he is not allowed to have access to a 
Grammar, nor to compose any Variations for himself, 
he learns nothing but idiomatic dictioUj and as he learns 
it thoroughly, he cannot fail to speak idiomatically and 
grammatically also. 

The two great objects of a learner's ambition ought to 
be, to speak a foreign language idiomatically and to pro- 
nounce it correctly. And these are the objects which are 
most carefully provided for in tliis System. 

The chief peculiarities of the process, at the outset, are 
the frequency and shortness of the daily exercises, and 
the provision that, at the beginning of each sitting, the 
learner shall refresh his memory by hearing or reading 
the whole of the lessons previously received. Thus he is 
enabled to recall and reproduce the foreign sentences in 
their idiomatic order of arrangement with perfect accuracy 
and fluency. 

As the sentences and their Variations have been com- 
posed by Professor J. Duprat Merigon, B. A., the fullest 
reliance may be placed on the purity of the models set 
before the learner. 

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London J December^ ISG'Z. 



I._TO THE ADULT LEARNER. 

1. The term Masteey is employed in this work to denote the 
power of using the idiomatic forms of a foreign language as fluent- 
ly and promptly as those of the mother-tongue. 

2. The Mastery scheme requires that long idiomatic sentences 
shall be divided into very short sections, and shall be accompanied 
by their Yariations in both languages. The beginner is not to 
compose any sentences for himself, but to receive them all ready- 
made and to commit them and their Yariations very thoroughly 
to memory. 

8. The English versions of these Yariations being placed 
separately before him, he must acquire by practice the habit of 
giving the foreign equivalent for each of them with the utmost 
fluency. They should always be translated in irregular suc- 
cession. 

4. The foreign Yariations exhibit the constructions which are 
lying latent in each sentence. The English Yariations are de- 
signed to convey the exact power of each of the foreign Yaria- 
tions, and to show the diiferent senses in which the individual 
foreign words and combinations can be employed. The explana- 
tions thus afforded include everything that a beginner ought to 
know in relation to each lesson, and therefore the study of gram- 
mar is prohibited, during this initiatory course. 

5. This system sets no value upon the rapid acquisition of a 
lesson ; but it provides for the perfect practical retention by the 
memory, and for the fluent reproduction of every sentence and of 
every Yariation which have been learned. 

6. In learning a language colloquially, the greatest difiiculty is 
in the first stage, and the only danger arises from going on too 
fast, and thus overloading and confusing the memory. 

7. The beginner should carefully abstain from seeing or hear- 
ing any new words in excess of those included in the lesson of the 
day. 



G INSTRUCTIOJS^S. 

8. If the beginner can bestow half-an-honr a day, tbe best dis- 
tribution of Ms time and labour would be to make six efforts of five 
minutes eacli at equal intervals throughout the day. It would be 
more generally convenient, however, to take three sittings a day 
of ten minutes each, with intervals of about six hours' duration be- 
tween them. Or if he be very zealous, and can afford the time, 
he may take, during the first few days, six sittings of ten minutes 
each, or even twelve of ^yq minutes each, because this latter 
course affords the nearest approximation to the natural process. 

9. If the beginner has previously acquired the pronunciation, 
he will have no occasion for a teacher, and he will commence by 
reading the first lesson and its Variations, and reciting them at in- 
tervals. If he has not already acquired the pronunciation, he 
must employ a teacher. Any foreigner, who has a correct pro- 
nunciation, may be engaged for this purpose. If he be employed 
for one hour a day, the time should be divided into three sittings 
of ten minutes each, the intervals being devoted to pursuits of a 
whoUy different character. But as the reception of three lessons 
in rapid succession does not sufficiently accord with the principle 
of frequency, each of the first lessons may be expected to occupy 
several sittings. 

10. The Variations of each lesson are to 'he mastered before a 
new one is commenced. The slightest hesitation in the use of a 
word in any one of the Variations, absolutely disqualifies the learner 
from advancing to a new lesson. In this respect he is not to 
judge himself indulgently but rigor ously„ 

11. He must commence every sitting by reading over all the 
previous lessons before he attempts to recite them. 

12. It is essential that he should always carry about with him 
in a compact form a copy of the English versions of those foreign 
Variations which he has already learned, in order that he may 
frequently practise translating them. He should also intersperse 
among them some equivalent English forms of expression convey- 
ing the same ideas in different words. But the latter should be 
submitted to a competent person for examination before he adopts 
them, and the various meanings of the individual foreign words 
should be incorporated in them under his orders. The French 
Variations should be carried about also on a separate paper, to be 
looked at before every such exercise begins. 

13. In learning anything by heai't, repetitions are indispensa- 



INSTEUCTIONS. 7 

ble, and the more they are distributed throughout the day, the 
smaller will be the mimber required to impress the foreign phrases 
on the memory. Yery short sittings are recommended, because 
the work is not an intellectual one, and no ingenuity can make it 
so, except by the addition of what is extraneous. Moreover, the 
memory accomplishes its work much more effectually by highly 
concentrated efforts at intervals than by prolonged application. 

14. The importation of the study of grammar and the learning 
of words having no significant coherence are prohibited, because 
they confuse the memory and impede the colloquial attainment. 
On the other hand, the study of Grammar will be ultimately 
facilitated to a great degree by a course of Mastery first received. 

15. After going through the Manual, the learner may use the 
Paradigm in the Appendix, in order to familiarise himself with 
those inflections which have not been included in the sentences. 
For this purpose, he should select some of the English Variations, 
and alter them by changing the tenses and persons of the verbs, 
and then translating them by means of the paradigm. When facil- 
ity is attained in thus applying the omitted inflections in rapid 
succession, with the eye fixed upon the paradigni, and with fre- 
quent recapitulations, the learner may proceed to converse with 
foreigners and to read as many Grammars and other books as he 
may think fit. 

16. Those who have studied a language without practising it 
colloquially ought to follow the course here prescribed for begin- 
ners, and not to proceed more rapidly until they have mastered 
the first sentence and all its Variations. 

!N". B. — The first lesson may be divided into two, or if the be- 
ginner will condescend so far, into three parts, forming three days' 
work. In those instances in which there is an imaginary disabil- 
ity for the learning of languages, this will obviate the disagreeable 
necessity for devoting two or three whole days to one and the 
same lesson. There is no waste of time in learning very short 
lessons ; for by mastering each lesson in its turn, the learner con- 
verts what is generally considered a repulsive drudgery into an 
interesting and attractive recreation. 



IL— TO THE TEACHER. 

1. The Teacher's sole duty, at first, is to impart to the learner 
a correct pronunciation, and to prevent him from advancing too 
rapidly to a new lesson. When teaching, he should never exhibit 
any sign of impatience, whether in word, look, tone, or gesture. 

2. The correct utterance of foreign sentences being of the ut- 
most importance, the beginner's chief care must be to attain it by 
imitating the movements of the vocal organs, and by echoing the 
sounds, the tones, the pauses, the accents, and the cadences of a 
foreigner's voice, in the rapid reiteration of each new section, and 
of its variations. It is, therefore, desirable that he should have a 
very clear, soft, and deliberate utterance. If the teacher speaks 
indistinctly, or roughly, or hurriedly, the beginner labours under a 
great disadvantage in learning the pronunciation. A difficult 
sound is never to be practised separately, but always between 
two others, and there must be no talking on either side even about 
the sounds. The pronunciation of a language may be, and ought 
to be, acquired within the compass of a hundred words. 

8. The beginner shall not undertake more than one lesson a 
day. But when the first six lessons have been mastered, the 
teacher may make additional Yariations, by rearranging the 
French words into new combinations and placing them before the 
beginner with their English Translations. This will prevent the 
learner from going on too fast from lesson to lesson. (See pre- 
ceding, Par. 4.) 

4. The accentuation of English words is so arbitrary, and the 
orthography is so perplexingly anomalous, that when foreign 
words are presented to us in the Eoman character, it is absolutely 
impossible for us to pronounce them aright without the aid of a 
foreigner. On this account, the learner should be prevented dur- 
ing the first six days from either seeing or hearing the spelling of 
any of the French lessons. After that, he may see the first lesson ; 
but he should not see the second until he can write the first from 
memory with perfect accuracy ; and he should never be allowed 



INSTEUCTIOXS. 9 

to advance to the writing of a new lesson except under the condi- 
tion that he shall on each occasion write all the preceding ones 
faultlessly. This Manual should, therefore, he kept hj the teacher 
at first, and the pupil should have nothing hut a written copy of 
the English Yariatioris hefore him ; hut after a few days the learner 
may be permitted to see each new lesson as soon as he has mas- 
tered it. 

5. As it is impossible to pronounce too well, or to recite the 
lessons too perfectly, however successful the beginner may be in 
pronunciation, and however perfectly he may know the lessons, 
the time must never be shortened, because he has to form the 
habit of uttering them as correctly and as fluently as a native. 

6. The utterance of foreign sounds and tones is entirely me- 
chanical, and therefore the difficulty is not to be overcome by force 
of intellect, but solely by the practice of echoing a few syllables at 
a time, with a view to the formation of a habit. This can only be 
contracted by degrees, and therefore imitative repetitions at inter- 
vals are essential. 

7. After the first fortnight, for the sake of variety, the teacher 
may introduce once a week a new noun and a new verb adapted 
to the phi^ases in the book ; but the existing words are not to be 
discarded, and no other additions should be made. 

8. The pupil must not be allowed to try to say the preceding 
lessons from memory at the beginning of each sitting, because this 
is the most fruitful source of inaccuracy. 

9. Whilst the pupil is translating the English versions of the 
Variations, the teacher is to prompt him, whether he likes it or 
not, so that not a second may be wasted in thinldng. Guessing 
must never be i)ermitted, and no time can be spared for talking. 
Grammatical explanations of all kinds and technical terms are in- 
admissible. 

Procedure during the First Fortniglit. 

FiEST SiTTixa. — The teacher should begin by uttering the last 
two words of Section I., then the last three, and so on. TThen the 
learner can utter the whole combination, the teacher is to repeat 
it loudly and in rapid succession, and the pupil is to echo the 
sounds in connected sequence with equal vehemence and rapidity. 
He is not to ponder over the sounds, but to repeat them instantly, 
and almost simultaneously. A free translation may be given to 



10 INSTEUCTIOlSrS. 

Mm at first ; but he is not to receive an explanation of tlie indi- 
vidual words, until he shall have devoted five minutes to the care- 
ful imitation of the teacher's voice. At the end of ^yq minutes, 
the literal translation of the first section is to be placed before 
him, with the English version of the Variations ; and then he may- 
echo the Variations of the first lesson, but without seeing the 
French words. The teacher should point out in the English paper 
each Variation as he utters it. The intonation of the whole sen- 
tence is to be regarded as not less important than the pronuncia- 
tion of the individual sounds. 

Second Sitting. — Section I. and its Variations are to be 
echoed in irregular succession six times. Then the pupil should 
alternately echo the French and translate the English Variations 
one by one. He should also point out, on the English paper, each 
Variation as he utters it. During this Exercise, he is not to read 
each English Variation aloud before he translates it. 

Thied Sitting. — Same as above. Kepeat this Exercise in dif- 
ferent sittings until the pupil can translate the Variations into 
French as rapidly as he can read them in English. If he can 
translate them all without hesitation, or error of any kind, he may 
commence another lesson. But the privilege of advancing to a 
new one must never be conceded, until he shall have mastered all 
the previous lessons. This law should be inexorably enforced, be- 
cause success depends entirely upon it. 

FouETH Sitting. — The first lesson is to be echoed three times, 
and then Section 11. should be echoed for five minutes. The Eng- 
lish Variations of the first lesson are then to be translated into 
French, and, alternating with them, four Variations of Section II. 
are to be echoed. 

Fifth Sitting. — The first lesson is to be echoed three times, 
and then the pupil should echo Section II. and four of its Varia- 
tions twelve times. The English Variations of the second lesson 
should then be translated into French alternately with those of the 
first. Occasionally the first two Sections should be translated as 
one combination. 

Sixth Sitting.— The first lesson should be echoed thrice, and 



INSTEUCTIONS. 11 

the second lesson six times, and the pupil should then translate the 
English Variations of the two lessons into French alternately. 

Seyenth Sitting. — Echo the first two lessons thrice, and the 
four new Variations of the second Section six times, and then 
translate them in irregular succession alternating with the previous 
Variations. 

Eighth Sitting. — The same. 

Ninth Sitting. — Echo the previous lessons thrice and the new 
Section for ^ye minutes. Then echo four of its Variations and 
translate the preceding Variations alternately. 

Thus it will he seen that each Section with its Variations is to 
occupy at least five sittings. 

All succeeding lessons are to he conducted in the manner ahove 
described. After the first seven lessons have been mastered, not 
more than the six preceding lessons need be recited in each sitting ; 
but the prior lessons should still be recited once a day, then three 
times a week, and ultimately twice a week. The long primary sen- 
tences, however, must be recited every day. These recapitulations 
will not be burdensome, if the volubility of utterance has been at- 
tained. On the other hand, if this is not acquired in every lesson 
at the beginning, the fundamental principle of the system is aban- 
doned. Mastery exacts a completeness far in excess of what is 
miscalled thoroughness in our schools ; and that completeness can- 
not be obtained except by the frequent reiteration of sentences 
with the words of which the learner is already quite familiar. 



THE MASTEEY SEEIES. 



FRENCH 



FIRST SENTENCE. 

Whi/ will you not do me the favor of calling on our friend's brother in 
New Street with me to-morrow ? 

No. I. 

Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas . . » 
For-iohat not ivill you not ... 

1. Yoiis voulez. 

2. Yous ne voulez pas. 

3. Voulez-vous? 

4. Ne voulez-vous pas ? 

5. Pourquoi voulez-vous ? 

6. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas ? 

No. II. 

me fairc le plaisir . . . 
me to-do the pleasure ... 

1. Voulez-vous me faire le plaisir ? 

2. Vous ne voulez pas me faire le plaisir. 

8. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas me faire le plaisir ? 

4. Vous voulez me faire le plaisir. » 

5. Ne voulez-vous pas me faire le plaisir ? 

6. Voulez-vous le faire ? 

7. Voulez-vous le fare faire ? 

8. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas le faire fairc ? 

No. III. 
de passer demain avec moi ... 
of to-call to-morrow with me . , , 

1. Voulez-vous passer avec moi demain ? 

2. Voulez-vous me faire le plaisir de passer ? 

3. Ne voulez-vous pas passer avec moi ? 

4. Ne voulez-vous pas passer demain ? 

5. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas passer demain ? 



FIRST SENTENCE. 



No. I. 



1. You will, or are willing, or wish. 

Q j You are not willing. 

* l You are determined not. 

„ j Will you ? Do you wish ? 

* ( Are you willing ? 
^ ( Will you not ? 

* ( Are you not willing ? 
5. Why will you ? 

g ( Why will you not ? 

* ( Why do you not wish ? 



Xo. II. 



1. Will you do me the favor ? 

2 j You will not do me the favor. 

* ( You are not willing to do me the favor, 
o i Why will you not do me the favor ? 

( Why are you resolved not to do me the favor ? 

4. You wish to do me the favor. 

5. Are you not willing to do me the favor ? 

6. Are you willing to do it ? 
'7. Will you have it done ? 

8. Why will you not have it done ? 



No. m. 



1. Do you wish to call with me to-morrow ? 

2. Will you do me the favor of calling ? 

3. Do you not wish to call v/ith me ? 

4. Do you not wish to call to-morrow ? 

5. Why are you not willing to call to-morrow ? 



16 THE MASTEP.Y SERIES. 

6. Vous ne voulez pas me faire le plaisir de passer avec moi demain. 

'7. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas me faire le plaisir de passer avec moi ? 

8. Vous voulez me faire le plaisir de passer demain avec moi. 

9. Pourquoi voulez-vous le faire faire demain ? 

10. Voulez-vous le faire demain ? 

11. Xe voulez-vous pas le faire avec moi ? 



- No. IV. 

chez le frere de notre ami . . . 
at-the-house-of the brother of our friend . , . 

1. Ne voulez-vous pas passer chez le frere de notre ami ? 

2. Vous voulez passer avec moi chez notre ami. 

3. Voulez-vous me faire le plaisir de passer demain avec moi chez le 
frere de notre ami ? 

4. Pourquoi voulez-vous passer avec moi chez le frere de notre ami ? 

5. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas passer demain chez notre ami ? 

6. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas me faire le plaisir de passer demain 
chez le frere de notre ami ? 

7. Vous voulez me faire le plaisir de passer chez le frere de notre ami. 

8. Vous voulez me faire le plaisir de passer demain avec moi chez le 
frere de notre ami. 

9. Voulez-vous le faire chez notre frere ? 



No. V. 

dans la rue Neuve ? 
in the street New ? 

1. Pourquoi passer demain chez notre ami dans la rue Neuve ? 

2. Ne voulez-vous pas passer avec moi chez le frere de notre ami dans 
la rue Neuve ? 

3. Vous voulez passer chez notre ami dans la rue Neuve. 

4. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas passer chez notre ami ? 

5. Pourquoi voulez-vous passer avec moi demain chez le frere de notre 
ami dans la rue Neuve ? 

6. Ne voulez-vous pas me faire le plaisir de passer avec moi chez 
notre ami dans la rue Neuve ? 

7. Vous voulez passer avec moi demain chez notre ami dans la rue 
Neuve. 

8. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas me faire le plaisir de passer demain 
avec moi dans la rue Neuve chez le frere de notre ami ? 



FEENCH. 1 7 

6. You will not do me the favor of calling with me to-morrow. 

7. Why will you not do me the favor of calling with me ? 

8. You will do me the favor of calling to-morrow with me. 

9. Why do you wish to have it done to-morrow ? 

10. Will you do it to-morrow ? 

11. Will you not do it with me ? 



No. lY. 



1. Do you not wish to call on our friend's brother ? 

2. You wish to call with me on our friend. 

8. Will you do me the favor of calling with me on our friend's brother 
to-morrow ? 

4. Why do you wish to call on our friend's brother with me ? 

5. Why will you not call on our friend to-morrow ? 

6. Why will you not do me the favor of calling on our friend's brother 
to-morrow ? 

7. You will do me the favor of calling on our friend's brother. 

8. You will do me the favor of calling on our friend's brother to- 
morrow with me. 

9. Will you do it at our brother's house ? 



Xo. Y. 

1. Why call to-morrow on our friend in Xew Street ? 

2. Do you not wish to call on our friend's brother in New Street with 
me? 

3. You wish to call on our friend in New Street. 

4. Why will you not call on our friend ? 

5. Why will you call on our friend's brother in New Street with me 
to-morrow ? 

6. Will you not do me the favor of calling on our friend in New 
Street with me ? 

7. You wish to call on our friend in New Street with me to-morrow. 

8. Why will you not do me the favor of calling on our friend's brother 
in New Street with me to-morrow ? 



THE MASTERY SERIES. 



SECOND SENTENCE. 

Bo you not wa7it to go to London to-day^ before your morning walk, to have 
your hoots stretched at the French shoemaker'' s ? 

No. YI. 

N'avez-vous pas besoin . . . 
Not have you 7iot want . . . 

1. Vous avez besoin de passer chez notre ami. 

2. Vous n'avez pas besoin de le faire. 

8. N'avez-vous pas besoin de passer chez notre frere ? 

4. Pourquoi avez-vous besoin de passer dans la rue Neuve? 

5. Pourquoi n'avez-vous pas besoin de le faire faire ? 

6. Avez-vous besoin de passer chez notre ami ? 

7. Vous n'avez pas besoin de passer chez notre frere. 

8. Vous avez besoin de passer avee moi. 



No. VII. 

d'aller a Londres aujourd'hui . . . 
of to-go to London to-day . . . 

1. Avez-vous besoin d'aller a Londres demain ? 

2. Vous avez besoin d'aller k Londres avee notre ami. 

3. Pourquoi voulez-vous aller aujourd'hui? 

4. Pourquoi voulez-vous aller a Londres avee moi ? 

5. N'avez-vous pas besoin d'aller a Londres ? 

6. N'avez-vous pas besoin d'aller aujourd'hui a Londres ? 

'7. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas aller aujourd'hui a Londres pour pas- 
ser chez notre ami ? 

8. Ne voulez-vous pas aller a Londres avee moi ? 

9. Vous avez besoin d'aller demain h Londres dans la rue Neuve ? 

10. Vous ne voulez pas aller aujourd'hui dans la rue Neuve avee le 
frere de notre ami. 

11. N'avez-vous pas de quoi le faire? 



No. VIII. 

avant votre promenade du matin ... 
"* before your icalk of -the morning . . . 

1. Avez-vous besoin d'aller ^ Londres avant votre promenade? 

2. Ne voulez-vous pas aller a Londres avant votre promenade du 
matin pour passer chez notre frere ? 

3. N'avez-vous pas besoin de passer chez votre ami avant notre 
promenade du matin ? 

4. Vous avez besoin d'aller ^ Londres avant notre ami. 



FRENCH. 19 

SECOND SENTENCE. 
No. VL 



1. You want to call on our friend. 

2. You do not want to do it. 

3. Do you not want to call on our brother ? 

4. Why do you want to call in New Street ? 

5. Why do you not want to have it done ? 

6. Do you want to call on our friend ? 

Y. You do not want to call on our brother. 
8. You want to call with me. 



No. YII. 



1. Do you want to go to London to-morrow ? 

2. You want to go to London with our friend. 
8. Why do you wish to go to-day ? 

4. Why do you wish to go to London with me ? 

5. Do you not want to go to London ? 

6. Do you not require to go to London to-day ? 

v. Why will you not go to London to-day to call on our friend ? 

8. Do you not wish to go to London with me ? 

9. You want to go to London to-morrow to New Street ? 

10. You do not wish to go to New Street to-day with our friend's 
brother. 

11. Have you not wherewith to do it ? 



No. VIII. 



1. Do you want to go to London before your walk? 

2. Do you not wish to go to London before your morning walk, to 
call upon our brother ? 

3. Do you not want to call on your friend before our morning walk ? 

4. You want to go to London before our friend does. 



20 THE MASTERY SEEIES. 

5. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas aller dans la rue Neuve aujourd'hui 
avant la promenade du matin ? 

6. Pourquoi voulez-vous aller k Londres demain matin avant de passer 
chez notre frere ? 

1. Pourquoi avez-vous besoin d' aller a Londres aujourd'hui avec notre 
frere avant notre promenade du matin ? 

8. Pourquoi voulez-vous passer chez notre ami avec moi avant d'aller 
h. Londres ? 

9. Yous n'avez pas besoin de passer chez votre frere avant notre 
promenade du matin. 

10. Youlez-vous aller a Londres avec moi demain matin ? 



No. IX. 

chez le cordonnier frangais . . . 

to-fhe house-of the shoemaker French . . . 

1. Pourquoi avez-vous besoin d'aller chez le cordonnier fran9ais ? 

2. Youlez-vous passer demain chez notre cordonnier avant votre 
promenade du matin ? 

3. N'avez-vous pas besoin d' aller aujourd'hui chez votre cordonnier 
a Londres ? 

4. Youlez-vous aller demain avec moi chez le cordonnier fran9ais ? 

5. N'avez-vous pas besoin d'aller aujourd'hui chez le cordonnier de 
votre ami ? 

6. Yous avez besoin de passer avec moi chez notre cordonnier avant 
notre promenade du matin. 

'7. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas aller aujourd'hui chez le cordonnier 
fran9ais a Londres ? 

8. Ne voulez-vous pas aller avec moi dans la rue Neuve, chez votre 
cordonnier ? 

9. Yous n'avez pas besoin d'aller demain chez le cordonnier fran9ais 
k Londres, avant notre promenade du matin. 

10. Yous avez besoin de passer aujourd'hui chez le frere du cordonnier 
avant votre promenade du matin. 

No. X. 

pour faire elargir vos bottines ? 
for io-make to-widen your boots ? 

1. Avez-vous besoin d'aller a Londres pour faire elargir vos bottines ? 

2. Youlez-vous aller a Londres aujourd'hui pour faire elargir vos bot- 
tines ? 

3. Yous avez besoin d'aller demain a Londres pour faire elargir vos 
bottines chez le cordonnier fran9ais. 

4. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas aller chercher vos bottines chez notre 
cordonnier avant votre promenade du matin ? 

5. N'avez-vous pas besoin de passer demain chez votre cordonnier, 
pour faire elargir vos bottines ? 

6. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas aller chercher vos bottines aujour- 
d'hui a Londres ? 



FEElSrCH. 21 

5. Why will you not go into New Street to-day before the morning 
walk? 

6. Why do you wish to go to London to-morrow morning before call- 
ing upon our brother ? 

7. Why do you need to go to London to-day with our brother before 
our morning walk ? 

8. Why do you wish to call on our friend with me before going to 
London ? 

9. You do not want to call on your brother before our morning walk. 
10. Do you wish to go to London with me to-morrow morning ? 



No. IX. 

1. Why do you want to go to the French shoemaker's ? 

2. Will you call to-morrow at our shoemaker's before your morning 
walk? 

3. Do you not want to go to your shoemaker's in London to day ? 

4. Will you go with me to-morrow to the French shoemaker's ? 

5. Do you not want to go to your friend's shoemaker's to-day ? 

6. You want to call with me at our shoemaker's before our morning 
walk. 

Y. Why will you not go to-day to London, to the French shoe- 
maker's ? 

8. Do you not wish to go with me to New Street, to your shoe- 
maker's ? 

9. You do not need to go to London to-morrow, to the French shoe- 
maker's, before our morning walk. 

10. You want to go to the shoemaker's brother's to-day, before your 
mornino; walk. 



No. X. 

1. Do you want to go to London to have your boots stretched ? 

2. Do you wish to go to London to-day to get your boots stretched ? 

3. You want to go to London to-morrow to have your boots stretched 
at the French shoemaker's. 

4. Why do you not wish to go before your morning walk to our shoe- 
maker's for your boots ? 

5. Do you not want to call at your shoemaker's to-morrow, to have 
your boots stretched ? 

6. Why will you not go to London for your boots to-day ? 



22 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

7. Yous n'avez pas besoin de passer demain matin, ayant votre 
promenade, chez le cordonnier de notre ami, pour faire elargir vos bot- 
tines. 

8. Ne voulez-vous pas passer aujourd'hui chez le cordonnier de la 
rue Neuve pour chercher vos bottines ? 

9. N'avez-vous pas besoin d'aller a Londres aujonrd'hui, avant votre 
promenade du matin, pour faire elargir vos bottines chez le cordonnier 
francais ? 



THIRD SENTENCE. 

How much must I give io the driver of this cab to take my father to 
the Bank after his lunc\ and bring him home again^ about half-past 
five? 

No. XI. 

Combien taut-il que je donne , . , 
How much is-it-7iecessary that I give , , 

i. Faut-il que je donne vos bottines h notre frere ? 

2. II faut faire k notre ami le plaisir de passer chez notre frere. 

3. Ne faut-il pas que je passe demain chez votre frere ? 

4. II ne faut pas que je donne vos bottines a votre frere. 

5. Pourquoi faut-il que je le donne h notre ami ? 

6. Pourquoi ne faut-il pas que je le donne aujourd'hui ? 

7. II faut que je passe aujourd'hui chez le cordonnier. 

8. II ne faut pas que je donne demain vos bottines h. votre cordon- 
nier de la rue Neuve. 

9. Combien faut-il que je donne pour vos bottines ? 

10. Combien faut-il ? 

11. II faut que je passe demain chez ie cordonnier de notre frere. 

12. N'avez-vous pas besoin de donner vos bottines h votre cordon- 
nier ? 

No. XII. 

au cocher de cc fiacre . . . 
to4he driver of this cab . 

1. Combien faut-il que je donne au cocher de mon frere ? 

2. Youlez-vous que je le donne au cocher de ce fiacre ? 

8. Ne faut-il pas que je donne quelque chose au cocher de ce fiacre ? 

4. II ne faut pas que notre ami donne rien a ce cocher. 

5. Combien faut-il que je donne au cocher ? 

6. Pourquoi faut-il que mon fr^re donne quelque chose a ce cocher ? 
Y. Faut-il que je donne vos bottines au cocher de ce fiacre pour 

vous ? 

8. Faut-il que mon ami donne quelque chose au cocher de co fiacre 
pour moi? 

9. II ne faut pas que je passe chez le cordonnier aujourd'hui. 



FRENCH. 23 

T. You do not want to call on our friend's shoemaker to have your 
boots stretched before your morning walk to-morrow morning. 

8. Do you not wish to call to-day in New Street, at your friend's shoe- 
maker's for your boots ? 

9. Do you not want to go to London before your morning walk to-day, 
to have your boots stretched at the French shoemaker's ? 



THIRD SENTENCE. 
No. XL 

1. Must I give your boots to our brother ? 

2. It is necessary to do our friend the pleasure of calling upon our 
brother. 

3. Must I not call upon your brother to-morrow ? 

4. I must not give your boots to your brother. 

5. Why is it necessary for me to give it to our friend ? 

6. Why must I not give it to-day ? 

Y. I must call to-day at the shoemaker's. 

8. I must not give your boots to your shoemaker in New Street to- 
morrow. 

9. How much must I give for your boots ? 

10. How much is necessary ? 

11. I must call to-morrow at our brother's shoemaker's. 

12. Do you not want to give your boots to your shoemaker ? 



No. xn. 

1. How much must I give to my brother's coachman ? 

2. Do you wish me to give it to the driver of this cab ? 

3. Must I not give something to the driver of this cab ? 

4. Our friend must not give any thing to this driver. 

5. How much must I give to the driver ? 

6. Why is it necessary for my brother to give something to this cabman ? 

7. Must I give your boots to the driver of this cab for you ? 

8. Must my friend give something to the driver of this cab for me ? 

9. I must not call at the shoemaker's to-day. 



24 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

10. II faut que je passe chez ce cocher demain. 

11. Pourquoi ne faut-il pas que je donne quelque cliose ce matin au 
cocher dii fiacre ? 

12. Combien faut-il que je donne demain matin au cocher de ce fiacre ? 
18. II faut que votre frere passe chez moi demain. 

14. II faut que le cordonnier me donne vos bottines aujourd'hui. 

No. XIIL 

pour conduire mon pere k la Banque . . . 
for to-condud my father to the Bank . . . 

1. Combien faut-il que je donne pour faire conduire mon pere k la 
Banque. 

2. Faut-il que je donne quelque chose au cocher pour conduire votre 
frere a la Banque ? 

3. II ne faut pas que je donne rien au cocher de ce fiacre pour conduire 
mon pere chez son ami. 

4. II faut que je donne quelque chose h ce cocher pour me conduire 
h Londres, chez notre ami. 

5. Combien faut-il que je donne au cocher de fiacre pour vous con- 
duire a la Banque, avec moi, ce matin ? 

6. Pourquoi ne faut-il pas que je donne quelque chose au cocher de ce 
fiacre pour conduire notre pere dans la rue Neuve ? 

v. Pourquoi ne faut-il pas que je donne quelque chose h ce cocher 
pour conduire le pere de notre ami chez le cordonnier fran9ais ? 

8. Ne faut-il pas que je donne quelque chose au cocher de ce fiacre 
pour conduire mon pere a la Banque avant notre promenade du matin ? 

9. Avez-vous de quoi le faire ? 

10. Youlez-vous que je passe demain chez votre frere ? 

11. Youlez-vous me conduire chez notre ami ? 



No. XIV. 

apres son second dejeuner ... 
after his second breakfast . . . 

1. Combien faut-il donner pour faire conduire mon pere h Londres 
apres son second dejeuner? 

2. Faut-il que je donne quelque chose a ce cocher pour vous conduire 
h la Banque apres votre dejeuner ? 

8. Ne faut-il pas que je donne quelque chose au cocher de ce fiacre 
pour me conduire chez mon ami apres mon second dejeuner ? 

4. II faut que je donne quelque chose au cocher du fiacre pour con- 
duire mon frere avec moi a la Banque, apres notre promenade du matin. 

5. Ne voulez-vous pas conduire mon pere k la Banque aujourd'hui 
avant son dejeuner ? 

6. Combien faut-il que je donne k ce cocher pour conduire mon ami 
dans la rue Neuve demain matin avant son second dejeuner ? 

7. Pourquoi ne faut-il pas que je donne quelque chose au cocher.de 
votre frere pour me conduire avec mon pere, avant notre second dejeuner, 
chez le cordonnier fran9ais de la rue Neuve ? 



FEEXCH. 25 

10. I must call on this cabman to-morrow. 

11. Why must I not give something this morning to the driver of the 
cab? 

12. How much must I give to-morrow morning to the driver of this cab ? 

13. Tour brother must call upon me to-morrow. 

14. The shoemaker must give me your boots to-day. 



No. XIII. 

1. How much must I pay to take my father to the Bank ? 

2. Must I give somethiag to the cabman to take your brother to the 
Bank ? 

3. I must not give any thing to the driver of this cab to take my father 
to his friend's. 

4. I must give something to this driver to take me to London, to our 
friend's. 

5. How much must I give to the cabman to take you to the Bank 
with me this morning ? 

6. Why must I not pay the driver of this cab to take our father into 
Xew Street ? 

Y. Why must I not pay this cabman to take our friend's father to the 
French shoemaker's ? 

8. Must I not pay the driver of this cab to take my father to the 
Bank, before our morning walk ? 

9. Have you any thing to do it with ? 

10. Do you wish me to call upon your brother to-morrow ? 

11. Will you take me to our friend's house ? 



No. XIY. 

1. How much is it necessary to give to take my father to London 
after his lunch ? 

2. Must I pay this cabman to take you to the Bank after vour break- 
fast ? 

8. Must I not pay the driver of this cab to take me to my friend's 
after mj lunch ? 

4. I must pay the driver of the cab to take my brother with me to the 
Bank after our morning walk. 

5. Will you not take my father to the Bank to-day before his break- 
fast ? 

6. How much must I give to this cabman to take my friend to New 
Street, to-morrow morning, before his lunch ? 

1. Why must I not pay your brother's coachman to take me with my 
father, before our lunch, to the French shoemaker's in New Street ? 
2 



26 THE MASTERY SERIES, 

8. N'avez-vous pas besoin d'aller a la Banque aujourd'hui apres votre 
second dejeuner ? 

9. Ne voulez-vous pas me conduire chez le pere de votre ami a Lon- 
dres, avant mon second dejeuner ? 



No. XV, 

et le ramener chez lui . . . 

and him to-bring-hack to-the-house of -him . . . 

1. Ne faut-il pas que je donne quelque chose au cocher de ce fiacre 
pour conduire mon pere a Londres et le ramener chez lui ? 

2. II faut que je donne quelque chose au cocher pour ramener votre 
frere chez lui avant son second dejeuner. 

3. Combien faut-il que je donne pour faire conduire notre ami a la 
Banque, et le faire ramener chez lui apres notre ijromenade du matin ? 

4. Pourquoi faut-il que je donne quelque chose a ce cocher pour me 
conduire chez le cordonnier frangais et me ramener chez moi ? 

5. Pourquoi ne faut-il pas que je donne quelque chose au cocher du 
fiacre pour vous ramener chez vous ? 

6. II ne faut pas que je donne rien a votre cocher pour ramener mon 
frere chez lui avant le second dejeuner. 

Y. Voulez-vous me conduire a la Banque et me ramener chez moi 
avec mon pere, aujourd'hui, apres notre promenade du matin ? 

8. Yous n'avez pas besoin de me ramener k Londres aujourd'hui 
avant le dejeuner. 

9. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas conduire demain le pere de mon ami 
dans la rue Neuve, et le ramener chez lui avant son second dejeuner ? 



Ko. XVI. 

vers cinq heures et demie ? 
towards Jive hours aiid half? 

1. Voulez-vous ramener mon pere chez lui vers cinq heures ? 

2. Combien faut-il que je donne pour faire conduire mon pere k Lon- 
dres chez le cordonnier, et le faire ramener chez lui vers cinq heures et 
demie ? 

8. N'avez-vous pas besoin d'aller aujourd'hui a la Banque avec votre 
pere, avant cinq heures ? 

4. Ne faut-il pas que je donne quelque chose au cocher de ce fiacre 
pour conduire mon pere a Londres avant son dejeuner, et le ramener 
avec moi chez iui vers cinq heures ? 

5. Pourquoi le ramener chez lui demain apres cinq heures et demie ? 

6. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas me faire le plaisir de le ramener chez 
lui avec mon ami et moi, avant cinq heures ? 

T. II faut que je donne vos bottines au cordonnier fran9ais aujourd'hui 
avant cinq heures et demie. 

8. Combien faut-il que je donne pour me faire conduire aujourd'hui k 
la Banque, et me faire ramener chez moi demain vers cinq heures ? 

9. Ne voulez-vous pas me ramener k Londres avec mon pere, mon 
frere et son ami, apres le second dejeuner, et avant cinq heures ? 



8. -Do you not want to go to the Bank to-day after your lunch ? 

9. Will you not take me to London to your friend's father's before 
my lunch ? 



No. XY. 

1. Must I not give something to the driver of this cab to take my 
father to London, and bring him home again ? 

2. I must pay the cabman to take your brother home again before his 
lunch. 

3. How much must I give to take our friend to the Bank, and bring 
him home again after our morning walk ? 

4. Why must I pay this cabman to take me to the French shoemaker's 
and home again ? 

5. Why must I not pay the driver of the cab for taking you home 
again ? 

6. I must not pay your coachman to take my brother home before 
lunch. 

7. Will you take me to the Bank and bring me home with my father 
to-day after our morning walk ? 

8. You need not take me back to London to-day before breakfast. 

9. Why will you not take my friend's father to New Street to-morrow, 
and bring him home before his lunch ? 



No. XYL 

1. Will you take my father home about five o'clock? 

2. How much must I give to take my father to London to the shoe- 
maker's, and bring him home again about half-past five ? 

3. Do you not want to go to-day to the Bank with your father, before 
five? 

4. Must I not pay the driver of this cab to take my father to London, 
before his breakfast, and bring him home again with me about five ? 

5. Y/hy take him home again to-morrow after half-past five ? 

6. Why will you not do me the favor of taking him home with my 
friend and me before five o'clock ? 

7. I must give your boots to the French shoemaker to-day before half- 
past five. 

8. How much must I pay to take me to-day to the Bank, and bring me 
home to-morrow about five o'clock ? 

9. Will you not take me back to London with my father, my brother 
and his friend, after the lunch and before five o'clock ? 



28 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

10. Combien faut-il que je donne au cocher de ce fiacre pour conduire 
mon ami dans la rue Neuve, apres son second dejeuner, et le ramener 
chez lui vers cinq heures et demie ? 



FOUETH SENTENCE. 

Tell the waiter^ if you please^ to bring me every day^ without fail^ at seven 
d^ clocks or sooner if he can^ a pitcher of hot water, a cup of coffee with 
milk J and my clothes well brushed. 

No. XYII. 

Dites au gar9on, je vous prie . . . 
Tell to-the waiter, I you pray . . . 

1. Dites au gar9on d'aller k la Banque demain matin. 

2. Dites, je vous prie, au gargon de ne pas aller aujourd'hui k Londres. 

3. Ne dites pas au gar9on de passer chez notre ami. 

4. Ne dites pas h ce garQon, je vous prie, d'aller avec vous. 

5. Ne dites pas, je vous prie, au gar9on d'aller dans la rue Neuve 
apres cinq heures. 

6. Dites au gar9on, je vous prie, de passer chez mon pere. 

*?. Dites, je vous prie, h mon ami, d'aller h la Banque pour moi. 

8. Ne dites pas au gar9on d'aller chez mon cordonnier. 

9. Ne dites pas k ce gar9on, je vous prie, d'aller aujourd'hui chez mon 
frere avant le dejeuner. 

10. Dites-lui, je vous prie, de passer chez le cordonnier fran9ais demain 
matin. 

No. XYIII. 

de m'apporter tons les jours ... 
to me to-hring all the days ... 

1. Dites k votre gar9on de m'apporter le dejeuner. 

2. Dites au gar9on de m'apporter mon second dejeuner tons les jours. 

3. Dites-lui, je vous prie, de porter le dejeuner a mon ami, avant de 
passer chez mon frere. 

4. Dites, je vous prie, k ce cordonnier, de m'apporter les bottines 
aujourd'hui apres cinq heures. 

5. Youlez-vous me faire le plaisir de m'apporter les bottines ? 

6. Dites a votre gar9on, je vous prie, de ne pas apporter les bottines 
demain matin. 

Y. Dites-lui de m'apporter mon dejeuner tons les jours avant notre 
promenade du matin. 

8. Youlez-vous porter le second dejeuner k mon pere tons les jours ? 

9. Combien faut-il que je donne k ce cocher de fiacre pour conduire 
mon frere k la Banque tons les jours ? 

10. Yous n'avez pas besoin de m'apporter tons les jours le second 
dejeuner. 



FEENCH. 29 



10. How much must I pay the driver of this cab to take my friend to 
New Street after his lunch, and bring him home again about half-past five ? 



FOURTH SENTENCE. 
No. XYII. 

1. Tell the waiter to go to the Bank to-morrow morning. 

2. Tell the waiter, if you please, not to go to London to-day. 

3. Do not tell the waiter to call on our friend. 

4. Do not tell this waiter, if you please, to go with you. 

5. Do not tell the waiter, if you please, to go to New Street after 
five o'clock. 

6. Tell the waiter, if you please, to call on my father. 

T. Tell my friend, if you please, to go to the Bank for me. 

8. Do not tell the waiter to go to my shoemaker's. 

9. Do not tell this waiter, if you please, to go to my brother's to-day 
before breakfast. 

10. Tell him, if you please, to call on the French shoemaker to-morrow 
morning. 



/ No. XYIII. 

1. Tell your waiter to bring my breakfast. 

2. Tell the waiter to bring me my lunch every day. 

3. Tell him, if you please, to take my friend his breakfast before 
calling on my brother. 

4. Tell this shoemaker, if you please, to bring me the boots after 
five o'clock to-day. 

5. Will you do me the favor to bring me the boots ? 

6. Tell your waiter, if you please, not to bring the boots to-morrow 
morning. 

T. Tell him to bring me my breakfast every day before our morning 
walk. 

8. Will you bring luncheon to my father every day 9 

9. How much must I give to this cab-driver to take my brother to 
the Bank every day ? 

10. You need not bring my limch every day. 



30 THE MASTEEY SERIES, 

No. XIX. 

sans faute, a sept heures . . . 
without faulty at seven hours . . . 

1. Youlez-vous, je vous prie, m'apporter les bottines ^ sept heures, 
sans faute ? 

2. Yous n'avez pas besoin de m'apporter mon dejeuner k sept heures 
et demie tous les jours. 

3. Dites, je vous prie, au cordonnier, de m'apporter les bottines au- 
jourd'hui, sans faute, avant sept heures. 

4. Dites-lui d'aller demain sans faute chez mon pere vers sept heures 
et demie. 

5. Combien faut-il que je donne pour me faire conduire h. Londres k 
cinq heures et demie, et me faire ramener chez moi apres sept heures ? 

6. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas me faire le plaisir de m'apporter mon 
dejeuner tous les jours, sans faute, avant notre promenade du matin? 

7. Youlez-vous, je vous prie, aller h la Banque avec mon ami, demain 
matin sans faute ? 

8. Dites h notre ami de me faire le plaisir de passer chez le cordon- 
nier fran9ais aujourd'hui sans faute, pour faire elargir les bottines de 
mon frere. 

-9. Ne lui dites pas d'apporter mon dejeuner avant sept heures et 
demie. 

10. Dites h. ce cocher, je vous prie, d'aller ce matin, sans faute, vers 
sept heures et demie, chez I'ami de mon pere. 

No. XX. 

ou plus tot s'il pent . . 
or more soon if he can . . . 

1. Dites, je vous prie, h. votre gar9on, de m'apporter mon dejeuner h. 
sept heures, s'il pent. 

2. Dites-lui d'apporter les bottines h. sept heures et demie, s'il ne 
pent pas plus tot. 

3. Dites au cocher de me conduire chez mon ami h, sept heures s'il 
ne pent pas a cinq. 

4. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas faire k mon pere le plaisir d'aller 
plus tot a la Banque ? 

5. Youlez-vous aller demain pour moi a Londres, chez le cordonnier 
fran9ais, si mon frere ne pent pas ? 

6. Si vous avez besoin d'aller aujourd'hui chez votre pere, dites au 
gargon, je vous prie, d'aller avec vous. 

V. Dites k votre ami de me faire le plaisir de passer chez mon pere 
vers cinq heures, ou plus tot s'il pent. 

8. Dites, je vous prie, au cocher de ce fiacre de conduire notre ami k 
la Banque, a sept heures et demie, ou avant s'il pent. 

9. Combien faut-il que je donne pour pouvoir aller plus tot a Lon- 
dre?!, chez votre cordonnier ? 

10. Ne dites pas au gar9on de m'apporter mon dejeuner plus tot au- 
jourd'hui. 

11. Dites-lui, je vous prie, d'apporter mon second dejeuner plus tot 
demain. 



FEENCH. 31 



Xo. XIX, 



1. Will you, if you please, bring me the boots at seven o'clock, with- 
out fail ? 

2. You need not bring me my breakfast at half-past seven every 
day. 

3. Tell the shoemaker, if you please, to bring me the boots to-day, 
without fail, before seven. 

4. Tell him to go to-morrow, without fail, to my father's at about 
half-past seven. 

5. How much must I pay to be taken to London at half-past five 
and brought home again after seven ? 

6. Why will you not do me the favour to bring me my breakfast every 
day, without fail, before our morning walk ? 

^. Will you, if you please, go to the Bank with my friend to-morrow 
morning without fail ? 

8. Tell our friend to do me the favour to call at the French shoe- 
maker's to-day, without fail, to have my brother's boots stretched. 

9. Do not tell him to brmg my breakfast before half-past seven. 

10. Tell this coachman, if you please, to go this mornmg, without fail, 
at about half-past seven, to my father's friend. 



No. XXo 

1. Tell your waiter, if you please, to bring my breakfast at seven 
o'clock if he can. 

2. Tell him to bring the boots at half-past seven, if he cannot do so 
sooner. 

3. Tell the coachman to take me to my friend's at seven o'clock, if 
he cannot at five. 

4. Why will you not do my father the favour to go sooner to the 
Bank? 

5. Will you go to morrow to London for me to the French shoe- 
maker's, if my brother cannot ? 

6. If you waut to go to-day to your father's, tell the waiter, if you 
please, to go with you. 

1, Tell your friend to do me the favour to call on my father about five 
o'clock, or sooner if he can. 

8. Tell the driver of this cab, if you please, to take our friend to the 
Bank at half-past seven, or before if he can. 

9. How much must I pay to go sooner to London to your shoe- 
maker's ? 

10. Do not tell the waiter to bring me my breakfast earlier to-day. 

11. Tell him, if you please, to bring my lunch sooner to-morrow. 



32 THE MASTEEY SEKIES^ 



No. XXI. 

un pot d'eau chaude . , . 
a jug of water hot . . . 

1. Dites, je vous prie, a ce gar90ii, de m'apporter un pot d^eau. 

2. Youlez-vous m'apporter un pot d'eau chaude avant sept heures et 
demie ? 

3. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas porter un pot d'eau chaude h. I'ami 
demon frere, avant son dejeuner? 

4. Ne faut-il pas que je vous donne un pot d'eau chaude tons les 
jours, sans faute, avant votre second dejeuner ? 

5. Combien faut-il pas que je donne au gargon pour un pot d'eau 
chaude ? 

6. II ne faut pas que je lui donne rien pour m'apporter un pot d'eau 
chaude tons les jours k sept heures. 

Y. Dites-lui de m'apporter, s'il pent, un pot d'eau chaude avant d'aller 
chez le cordonnier fran9ais. 

8. N'avez-vous pas besoin de porter ce pot d'eau a mon ami avant notre 
promenade du matin ? 

9. Yous n'avez pas besoin d'apporter les bottines avec I'eau chaude. 
10. Yous avez besoin d'apporter I'eau chaude avant d'aller a Londres 

faire elargir les bottines de mon pere. 



No. XXII, 

une tasse de cafe au lait , , , 
a cup of coffee to-the milk ... 

1. Dites-moi, je vous prie, combien il faut que je donne pour une tasse 
de cafe. 

2. Combien faut-il que je vous donne pour une tasse de cafe au lait ? 

3. Et pour une tasse de cafe sans lait ? 

4. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas m^apporter tons les jours, avant sept 
heures et demie, une tasse de cafe avec le pot d'eau chaude ? 

5. Youlez-vous me faire le plaisir de porter une tasse de cafe au lait 
a Fami de mon frere avant d'aller chez le cocher ? 

6. Dites au gar9on, je vous prie, de porter a mon pere demain matin h, 
sept heures, ou plus tot s'il pent, un pot d'eau chaude et une tasse de 
cafe sans lait. 

7. Dites a votre gar9on de m'apporter une tasse de cafe, et au cocher 
de ce fiacre de me conduire ^ la Banque. 

8. Dites-lui, je vous prie, de ne pas m'apporter le lait dans un pot et 
I'eau chaude dans une tasse. 

9. Ne voulez-vous pas m'apporter tons les jours une tasse de cafe au 
lait avec mon second dejeuner ? 

10. Dites h. votre frere de me faire le plaisir de m'apporter une tasse 
de cafe avant notre promenade du matin. 



FRENCH. 33 



No. XXI. 



1. Tell this waiter, if you please, to bring me a pitcher of water. 

2. Will you bring me a pitcher of hot water before half-past seven ? 

3. Why will you not take a pitcher of hot water to my brother's friend 
before his breakfast ? 

4. Must I not give you a pitcher of hot water every day, without fail, 
before your lunch ? 

5. How much must I give to the waiter for a pitcher of hot water ? 

6. I need not give him any thing for bringing me a pitcher of hot water 
every day at seven o'clock. 

^. Tell him to bring me, if he can, a pitcher of hot water before going 
to the French shoemaker's. 

8. Do you not want to take this pitcher of water to my friend before 
our morning walk ? 

9. You do not want to bring the boots with the hot water. 

10. You want to bring the hot water before you go to London to have 
my father's boots stretched. 



K"o. XXII. 

1. Tell me, if you please, how much I must give for a cup of coffee ? 

2. How much must I give you for a cup of coffee with milk ? 

3. And for a cup of coffee without milk ? 

4. Why will you not bring me every day, before half-past seven, a cup 
of coffee with the pitcher of hot water ? 

5. Will you do me the pleasure to take a cup of coffee with milk to 
my brother's friend before you go to the coachman's ? 

6. Tell the waiter, if you please, to take to my father to-morrow morn- 
ing at seven o'clock, or sooner if he can, a pitcher of hot water and a 
cup of coffee without milk. 

'7. Tell your waiter to bring me a cup of coffee, and this cab-driver 
to take me to the Bank. 

8. Tell him, if you please, not to bring me the milk in a pitcher and 
the hot water in a cup. 

9. Will you not bring me every day a cup of coffee with milk, with 
my lunch ? 

10. Tell your brother to do me the favor to bring me a cup of coffee 
before our morning walk. 



34 THE MASTERY SERIES. 



No. XXIII. 

et mes habits bien brosses. 
and my clothes loell brushed, 

1. Voulez-Yous m'apporter mes habits demain matin vers sept heiires ? 

2. N'avez-Yoiis pas besoiu de vos habits et de vos bottines h> sept 
heures et demie ? 

8. Dites a votre gar9on de m'apporter tous les jours mes bottines et 
mes habits bien brosses. 

4. Xe peut-il pas apportcr tons les habits de mon frere avant de lui 
apporter son dejeuner ? 

5. II ne pent pas apporter les habits de votre frere avec vos habits. 

6. Pourquoi le garcon ne peut-il pas apporter les habits de mon ami 
avec Peau chaude et la tasse de cafe ? 

Y. Peut-il me faire le plaisir de m'apporter tous mes habits bien 
brosses avant d'aller a la Banque ? 

8. Combien faut-il que je donne au garcon pour porter les habits h 
mon pere et mes bottines chez un cordonnier ? 

9. Dites a mon frere, je vous prie, d'aller h Londres aujourd'hui, sans 
faute, a sept heures, ou plus tot s'il pent chercher mes habits et mes bot- 
tines. 

10. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas me faire Ic plaisir de m'apporter tous 
les jours, vers sept heures et demie, mes habits bien brosses, ime tasse 
de cafe au lait et un pot d'eau chaude ? 



PIFTH SENTENCE. 

If you go out with my sister, asl' the bool'seller, on your way, lohen he will 
send us the English book which she bought three or four days ago. 

No. XXIY. 

Si vous sortez avec ma sceur . . . 
If you go-out with my sister . . . 

1. Sortez-vous tous les matins pour faire une promenade? 

2. Pourquoi ne sortez-vous pas tous les jours, avant le dejeuner, avec 
votre soeur et votre frere ? 

3. Youlez-vous, si vous sortez, me faire le plaisir de passer chez ma 
soeur ? 

4. Si vous sortez apres le second dejeuner, dites i\ mon cordonnier, 
je vous prie, de m'apporter mes bottines vers cinq heures, sans faute. 

5. Ne voulez-vous pas porter a ma soeur un pot d'eau chaude et 
une tasse de lait ? 

G. Si vous sortez en fiacre demain matin avec mon pere et ma soeur, 
voulez-vous aller i\ la Banque de Londres pour moi ? 

V. Combien fimt-il que mon frere donne a ce cocher pour conduire 
notre sceur dans la rue Neuve ? 



FRENCH. 35 

No. XXIII. 

1. Will you bring me my clothes to-morrow morning, about seven 
o'clock ? 

2. Do you not want your clothes and your boots at half-past seven ? 

3. Tell your waiter to bring me every day my boots and my clothes 
well brushed. 

4. Can he not bring all my brother's clothes before bringing him his 
breakfast ? 

5. He cannot bring your brother's clothes with your clothes. 

6. Why cannot the waiter bring my friend's clothes with the hot 
water and the cup of coffee ? 

7. Can he do me the favour to bring me all my clothes well brushed 
before going to the Bank ? 

8. How much must I pay the waiter to take the clothes to my father 
and my boots to a shoemaker's ? 

9. Tell ray brother, if you please, to go to London to-day, without fail, 
at seven, or sooner if he can, for my clothes and my boots. 

10. Why will you not do me the favour to bring me every day, about 
half-past seven, my clothes well brushed, a cup of coffee with milk, and a 
pitcher of hot water ? 



FIFTH SENTENCE. 



No. XXIV. 



1. Do you go out every morning to take a walk ? 

2. Why do you not go out every day before breakfast with your sister 
and your brother ? 

3. Will you, if you go out, do me the favour to call on my sister ? 

4. If you go out after lunch, tell my shoemaker, if you please, to bring 
me my boots about five o'clock, without fail. 

5. Will you not bring my sister a jug of hot water and a cup of milk ? 

6. If you go out in a cab to-morrow morning with my father and my 
sister, will you go to the London Bank for me? 

'7. How much must my brother give to this cabman to take our sister 
to New Street ? 



36 THE MASTEEY SEEIES. 

8. N'avez-vous pas besoin d'aller aujourd'hui chez le cordonnier fran- 
9ais chercher les bottines de votre soeur ? 

9. Dites-moi, je vous prie, combien il faut que mon pere donne h un 
cocher de fiacre, pour le conduire k Londres et le ramener chez ma soeur 
avant cinq heures et demie. 

10. Gar9on, voulez-vous porter h ma soeur ses bottines, k sept heures, 
sans faute, et m'apporter tous mes habits bien brosses ? 



No. XXY. 

demandez en passant au libraire ... 
ask in passing to-the hoohseller . . . 

1. Si vous sortez avant moi, voulez-vous passer chez le libraire fran- 
9ais? 

2. Demandez en passant au cordonnier s'il pent m'apporter mes bot- 
tines aujourd'hui avant ma promenade du matin. 

3. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas faire a ma soeur le plaisir de passer 
chez le libraire ? 

4. Si vous sortez, voulez-vous aller chez le cordonnier de la rueNeuve 
pour faire elargir les bottines de ma soeur ? 

5. Combien faut-il que ma soeur donne pour un fiacre pour aller chez 
son libraire ? 

6. Demandez k mon ami s'il pent me faire le plaisir d'aller pour moi 
chez le libraire avant le second dejeuner. 

'7, Yous avez besoin d'aller adjourd'hui, sans faute, a la Ban que et 
chez notre libraire. 

8. Dites en passant au gar9on de m'apporter un pot d'eau chaude avant 
de porter k ma soeur sa tasse de lait. 

9. Demandez, je vous prie, au cocher combien il faut que je lui donne 
pour conduire ma soeur chez le libraire de la rue Neuve. 



Xo. XXVI. 

quand est-ce qu'il nous enverra ... 
when is-it that he us ivill-send . . . 

1. Quand est-ce que le cordonnier enverra les bottines dema soeur? 

2. Quand voulez-vous aller avecmon pere et ma soeur chez notre 
libraire ? 

8. Demandez, je vous prie, au gar9on s'il nous enverra le fiacre avant 
ou apres sept heures. 

4. Quand est-ce que vous voulez nous faire le plaisir d'aller avec nous 
chez notre ami ? 

6. Demandez combien il faut que je lui donne pour nous conduire chez 
le libraire de notre soeur, et nous ramener chez nous avant le second 
dejeuner. 

6. Qaand est-ce que vous avez besoin d'aller a la Banque et chez le 
libraire fran9ais ? 

^. Si vous sortez avant ma soeur, demandez en passant au cordonnier 
s'il ne m' enverra pas mes bottines aujourd'hui, ou demain sans faute. 



FREKCH. 37 

8. Do you not want to go to-day to the French shoemaker's for your 
sister's boots ? 

9. Tell me, if you please, how much my father must pay a cab-driver 
to take him to London and back to my sister's before half-past five ? 

10. Waiter, will you bring at seven o'clock, without fail, the boots to 
my sister, and to me all my clothes well brushed ? 



No. XXY. 

1. If you go out before me, will you call at the French bookseller's ? 

2. Ask the shoemaker on your way if he can bring me my boots to. 
day before my morning walk. 

3. Why will you not do my sister the favour of calhng at the book- 
seller's ? 

4. If you go out, will you go to the shoemaker's in New Street to 
have my sister's boots stretched ? 

5. How much must my sister give for a cab to go to her bookseller's ? 

6. Ask my friend if he can do me the favour of going for me to the 
bookseller's before lunch. 

7. You want to go to-day, without fail, to the Bank and to our book- 
seller's. 

8. Tell the waiter, on your way, to bring me a pitcher of hot water be- 
fore bringing the cup of milk to my sister. 

9. Ask the cabman, if you please, how much I must give him to take 
my sister to the bookseller in New Street. 



No. XXYI. 

1. When will the shoemaker send my sister's boots ? 

2. When will you go with my father and my sister to our bookseller's ? 

3. Ask the waiter, if you please, if he will send us the cab before or 
after seven. 

4. When will you do us the favour of going with us to our friend's ? 

5. Ask how much I must give him to take us to our sister's book- 
seller's, and bring us home again before lunch. 

6. When do you want to go to the Bank and to the French book- 
seller's ? 

'7. If you go out before my sister, ask the shoemaker, as you pass, if 
he will not send me my boots to-day, or to-morrow without fail. 



38 THE MASTERY SEEIES. 

8. II ne nous enverra pas les bottines avant notre promenade da 
matin. 

9. Quand est-ce que ma soeur enverra le gargon k la Banque ? 

10. Ne nous enverra-t-il pas le fiacre avant d'aller dans la rue Neuve, 
chez le libraire ? 



No. XXYII. 

le livre anglais qu'elle a achete . . . 

the hook English which she has bought . . . 

1. Quand est-ce que vous avez achete vos bottines ? 

2. Si vous sortez, demandez en passant au libraire quand est-ce quUl 
m'enverra le livre fran9ais que mon frere a achete pour moi. 

3. Voulez-vous m'apporter le livre anglais que vous avez achete ce 
matin ? 

4. Dites au gar9on, je vous prie, d'aller sans faute chez le libraire k 
cinq heures, ou plus tot s'il pent, chercher un livre fran^ais que ma soeur 
a achete ce matin. 

5. Quand est-ce qu'il enverra ce livre et le livre anglais que mon ami 
a achete pour lui ? 

6. Voulez-vous me faire le plaisir de porter demain ce livre anglaise 
h. ma soeur et ce livre franyaise h mon frere ? 

'7. N'avez-vous pas achete un livre fran9ais aujourd'hui chez un libraire 
de Londres ? 

8. Est-ce demain ou apres-demain que le cordonnier anglais enverra 
les bottines de la soeur de mon ami ? 

9. Le libraire n' enverra-t-il pas avant notre promenade du matin le 
livre anglais que ma soeur a achete pour nous ? 

10. Le livre anglais qu'elle a achete chez votre libraire est pour moi, 
et le livre fran9ais est pour le pere de notre ami. 

11. Dites, je vous prie, au gar9on de m'apporter un livre fran9ais et 
mes habits bien brosses a sept heures et demie sans faute. 



No. XXYIII. 

il y a trois ou quatre jours. 
it there has three or four days. 

1. Dites k mon pere que ma soeur a achete il y a trois jours un livre 
fran9ais pour lui. 

2. Quand est-ce que le libraire le lui enverra ? 

3. II ne lui enverra pas aujourd'hui le livre anglais que mon pere a 
achete pour elle il y a quatre ou cinq jours. 

4. Demandez-lui en passant quand est-ce qu'il nous enverra ce livre 
anglais-fran9ais que I'ami de mon frere a achete il y a trois ou quatre 
jours pour mon frere et ma soeur. 

5. N'avez-vous pas achete vos bottines chez le cordonnier anglais il 
y a sept jours ? 

6. Pourquoi le libraire n'enverra-t-il pas demain k ma soeur le livre 
qu'elle a achete il y a quatre jours ? 



FEEISrCH. 39 

8. He will not send us the boots before our morning walk. 

9. When will my sister send the waiter to the Bank ? 

10. Will he not send us the cab before going to New Street, to the 
bookseller's ? 



No. XXYII. 

1. When did you buy your boots ? 

2. If you go out, ask the bookseller on your way when he will send me 
the French book which my brother bought for me. 

3. Will you bring me the English book which you bought this 
mornmg ? 

4. Tell the waiter, if you please, to go without fail to the bookseller's 
at five o'clock, or sooner if he can, for a French book which my sister 
bought this morning. 

5. When will he send this book and the English book which my 
friend has bought for him ? 

6. Will you do me the favour of taking to-morrow this English book 
to my sister and this French book to my brother ? 

7. Have you not bought a French book to-day at a London book- 
seller's ? 

8. Is it to-morrow, or the day after, that the English shoemaker will 
send my friend's sister's boots ? 

9. Will not the bookseller send before our morning walk the English 
book which my sister bought for us ? 

10. The English book which she bought at your bookseller's is for me, 
and the French book is for our friend's father. 

11. Tell the waiter, if you please, to bring me a French book, and my 
clothes well brushed, at half-past seven without fail. 



No. XXYIII. 

1. Tell my father that my sister bought him a French book three 
days ago. 

2. When will the bookseller send it to her ? 

3. He will not send her to-day the English book which my father 
bought her four or five days ago. 

4. Ask him, as you pass, when he will send us this, English and 
French book which my brother's friend bought three or four days ago 
for my brother and sister. 

5. Did you not buy your boots at the English shoemaker's seven 
days ago ? 

6. Why will not the bookseller send to my sister to-morrow the book 
which she bought four days ago ? • 



40 THE MASTERY SEEIES. 

1. Demandez au gar9on s'il peut aller avant le second dejeuner chez 
le libraire de la rueNeuve chercher le livre anglais que mon pere a achete 
il y a trois ou quatre jours. 

8. Si vous sortez avec ma soeur, ne voulez-vous pas me faire le plaisir 
de nous apporter le livre fran9ais que mon pere a achete k Londres il y 
a trois jours ? 

9. Combien faut-il que je donne au libraire pour le livre anglais qu'il 
m'enverra dans trois ou quatre jours ? 

10. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas, mon ami, nous faire le plaisir de 
passer dans trois ou quatre jours cbez votre soeur pour lui porter le livre 
fran9ais que mon frere a achete pour elle ? 



SIXTH SENTENCE. 

The old man-servant looked very cross when he came yesterday evening to 
clear the table and fetch our letters to post them, 

No. XXIX. 

Le vieux domestique avait Fair . . . 
The old man-servant had the air . . , 

1. Pourquoi, mon ami, voulez-vous aller k Londres sans nous et sans 
votre vieux domestique ? 

2. Le domestique de mon frere a Tair fran9ais,et votre vieux domes- 
tique a Fair anglais. 

8. Youlez-vous m'apporter mes vieux habits bien brosses avant sept 
heures et demie ? 

4. Demandez au domestique fran9ais de votre pere s'il peut passer ce 
matin chez le libraire de la rue Neuve. 

5. Dites, je vous prie, a mon vieux domestique, de m'apporter k sept 
heures, ou plus tot s'il peut, un pot d'eau chaude et une tasse de cafe. 

6. Le vieux cordonnier que mon frere avait k Londres n'avait pas 
Fair anglais. 

7. Si vous sortez avec ma soeur pour aller k la Banque, dites au vieux 
domestique fran9ais d'aller avec vous. 

8. N'avez-vous pas besoin de mon domestique ce matin ? 

9. Dites aii gar9on de porter demain matin, sans faute, ce vieux livre 
fran9ais k Fami de mon frere, et d'aller chez le cordonnier pour faire 
elargir mes bottines. 

10. Ce cocher est fran9ais et il a Fair anglais. 

11. Combien faut-il que je donne k mon vieux domestique pour le 
cocher de fiacre ? 

12. Le livre que ma soeur a achete chez votre libraire a Fair vieux. 



FBE]SrCH, 41 

7. Ask the waiter if he can go before lunch to the bookseller's in 
Xew Street for the English book which my father bought three or four 
days ago, 

8. If you go out with my sister, will you not do me the favour to bring 
us the French book which my father bought in London three days ago ? 

9. How much must I pay the bookseller for the English book which 
he will send me in three or four days ? 

10. Why will you not, my friend, do us the favour of calling in three 
or four days on your sister to take her the French book which my 
brother bought for her ? 



SIXTH SENTENCE. 
No. XXIX. 



1. Why, my friend, will you go to London without us and without 
your old servant ? 

2. My brother's man-servant looks like a Frenchman, and your old 
man-servant looks like an Englishman. 

3. Will you bring me my old clothes well brushed before half-past 
seven ? 

4. Ask your father's French man-servant if he can call this morning 
at the bookseller's in New Street. 

5. Tell my old man-servant, if you please, to bring me at seven o'clock, 
or sooner if he can, a pitcher of hot water and a cup of coffee. 

6. The old shoemaker whom my brother had in London did not look 
like an Englishman. 

1. If you go out with my sister to go to the Bank, tell the old French 
man-servant to go with you. 

8. Do you not want my man-servant this morning ? 

9. Tell the waiter to take to-morrow morning, without fail, this old 
French book to my brother's friend, and to go to the shoemaker's to 
have my boots stretched. 

10. This coachman is French, and he looks like an Englishman. 

11. How much must I give to my old servant for the cabman ? 

12. The book which my sister bought at your bookseller's looks old. 



42 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

No. XXX. 

de bien mauvaise humeur . . . 
of very had humour . . . 

1. Mon frere avait-il I'air d'etre en mauvaise humeur avant le second 
dejeuner ? 

2. II n'avait pas Pair d'etre en mauvaise iiumeur apres notre prome- 
nade du matin. 

8. Le vieux domestique, n'avait il pas Pair d'etre de bien mauvaise 
humeur il y a trois ou quatre jours ? 

4. Le gargon fran9ai3 avait Fair d'etre de bien mauvaise humeur 
avant d'apporter le cafe. 

5. II y a trois jours que notre cocher est de mauvaise humeur. 

6. II avait I'air d'etre de bien mauvaise humeur avant de conduire 
mon pere ^ la Banque. 

V. II n'avait pas I'air d'etre mauvaise humeur avant de le ramener 
chez lui. 

8. II n'est pas de mauvaise humeur. 

9. Demandez k votre domestique si le vieux libraire fran9ais avait 
Fair d'etre de mauvaise humeur ce matin. 

10. II avait Fair d'etre de bien mauvaise humeur. 

11. II n'a pas Fair d'etre de mauvaise humeur aujourd'hui. 

12. Mon vieux domestique avait Fair d'etre de bien mauvaise humeur 
avant d'apporter mes bottines et mes habits. 



Ko. XXXL 

lorsqu'il est venu hier au soir . . . 

when he is come yesterday at the evening . , . 

1. Le garcon avait Fair d'etre de bien mauvaise humeur lorsqu'il est 
venu ce matin m'apporter mon eau chaude et ma tasse de lait. 

2. Mon vieux domestique anglais avait-il Fair d'etre de mauvaise hu- 
meur lorsqu'il est venu vous apporter le livre que mon ami a achete ? 

3. Dites-moi si mon frere est venu en fiacre hier au soir. 

4. Ma soeur a achete ce livre fran9ais hier au soir. 

5. Quand est-ce que le vieux domestique de mon pere est venu — hier 
au soir ou ce matin ? 

6. Le cocher avait-il Fair d'etre de mauvaise humeur ce soir lorsqu'il 
est venu pour ramener k Londres mon pere et son vieux domestique ? 

'7. Pourquoi le gar9on n'est-il pas venu hier au soir nous apporter une 
tasse de cafe, a moi et a mon frere ? 

8. Lorsque le cordonnier fran9ais enverra mes bottines, demandez 
combien il faut lui donner. 

9. Quand voulez-vous une tasse de cafe au lait — le matin ou le soir ? 

10. Quand le libraire enverra-t-il le livre que ma soeur a achete hier 
matin ? 

11. Lorsque le domestique est venu hier au soir nous apporter le livre 
anglais que vous avez achete, il avait Fair d'etre de bien mauvaise hu- 
meur. 

12. Combien y a-t-il de temps que votre ami est venu h Londres ? 



FRENCH. 43 



JN'o. XXX. 



1. Did my brother appear in a bad humour before lunch? 

2. He did not look cross after our morning walk. 

3. Did not the old man-servant look very cross three or four days 
ago? 

4. The French waiter looked very ill-tempered before bringing up the 
coffee. 

5. Our coachman has been cross these three days. 

6. He looked very cross before taking my father to the Bank. 
^, He did not look cross before bringing him home. 

8. He is not x^ross. 

9. Ask your man-servant if the old French bookseller looked cross 
this morning. 

10. He looked very cross. 

11. He does not look cross to-day. 

12. My old man-servant looked very cross before bringing up my boots 
and my clothes. 



No. XXXI. 

1. The waiter looked in a very bad temper when he came this morn- 
ing to bring my hot water and my cup of milk. 

2. Did my old English man-servant look cross when he came to bring 
you the book which my friend bought ? 

3. Tell me, did my brother come in a cab yesterday evening ? 

4. My sister bought this French book yesterday evening. 

5. When did the old man-servant of my father come — yesterday even- 
ing or this morning ? 

6. Did the coachman look cross this evening when he eame to take 
my father and his old man-servant back to London ? 

7. Why did not the waiter come yesterday evening to bring me and 
my brother a cup of coffee ? 

8. When the French shoemaker sends my boots, ask how much I 
must give. 

9. When will you have a cup of coffee with milk — in the morning or 
evening ? 

10. When will the bookseller send the book which my sister bought 
yesterday morning ? 

11. When the man-servant came yesterday evening to bring us the 
i]ngHsh book which you bought, he looked very cross. 

12. How long is it since your friend came to London ? 



^^ THE jyiASTERY SERIES. 



No. XXXII. 



desservir et chercher nos lettres . . . 
to-clear-the-table and to-fetch our letters . 

1. Dites au domestique d'apporter nos lettres tous les jours avant le 
dejeuner. 

2. Dites-lui, je vous prie, de desservir k sept heures, ou plus tot s'il 
peut. ^ 

3. II avait Fair d'etre de bien mauvaise humeur bier au soir lorsau'il 
est venu desservir. ^ 

4. Le gar9on anglais est-il venu chercher nos lettres avant d'aller k la 
Banque et dans la rue Neuve ? 

6. II est venu chercher vos lettres avant de desservir. 
^ 6. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas porter les lettres de mon pere tous les 
jours avant sept heures et demie ? 

'Z. Le vieux domestique n'avait-il pas I'air d'etre de mauvaise humeur 
ce soir lorsqu'il est venu desservir et chercher vos lettres ? 

8. II n'avait pas Tair d'etre de mauvaise humeur lorsqu'il est venu 
apporter mes habits et chercher mes bottines. 

9. Dites-lui d'aller a cinq heures, ou plus tot s'il peut, chez le libraire 
de ma soeur, chercher un livre qu'elle a achete il y a trois jours. 

10. Voulez-vous me faire le plaisir d'apporter nos lettres avant de des- 
servir ? 

11. 11 y a trois jours que le vieux domestique francais n'est venu 
chercher mes lettres. 



No. XXXIIL 

pour les mettre k la poste. 
for them to put to the post, 

1. N'avez-vous pas besoin d'aller dans la rue Neuve avant cinq heures 
pour mettre vos lettres a la poste ? 

2. Combien faut-il que ma soeur donne pour un fiacre pour aller k la 
Poste et k la Banque ? 

8. Dites au domestique d'aller tous les jours k sept heures et demie, 
ou plus tot s'il peut, mettre mes lettres k la poste. 

4. Y a-t-il une poste dans votre rue ? 

5. II n'y a pas de poste dans notre rue. 

6. II y a une poste dans la rue du libraire fran9ais. 

'7. Le domestique anglais est venu chercher nos lettres hier au soir, a 
sept heures, avant de desservir. 

8. Cocher, voulez-vous me conduire a la poste de la rue Neuve, et me 
ramener chez moi vers cinq heures et demie ? 

9. Dites, je vous prie, au vieux domestique de nous apporter, k moi 
et k mon frere, notre eau chaude, nos bottines et nos habits avant d'aller 
mettre les lettres a la poste ? 

10. Pourquoi le gar9on anglais avait-il Fair d'etre de mauvaise humeur 
ce soir lorsqu'il est venu chercher les lettres de mon pere pour les mettre 
a la poste ? 



FEENCH. 45 



No. XXXIL 



1. Tell the man-servant to bring up our letters every day before 
breakfast. 

2. Tell him, if you please, to clear the table at seven o'clock, or 
sooner if he can. 

3. He looked very cross yesterday evening when he came to clear the 
table. 

4. Did the English waiter come to fetch our letters before going to 
the bank and to New Street ? 

5. He has come to fetch your letters before clearing the table. 

6. Why will you not bring up my father's letters every day before 
half-past seven ? 

T. Did not the old man-servant look cross this evening when he came 
to clear the table and fetch your letters ? 

8. He did not look cross when he came to bring my clothes and fetch 
my boots. 

9. Tell him to go at five o'clock, or sooner if he can, to my sister's 
bookseller's for a book which she bought three days ago. 

10. Will you do me the favour of bringing up our letters before clear- 
ing the table ? 

11. The old French man-servant has not come to fetch my letters these 
three days. 



No. XXXIII. 

1. Do you not want to go to New Street before five o'clock to post 
your letters ? 

2. How much must my sister give for a cab to go to the Post-office 
and the Bank ? 

3. Tell the man-servant to go every day at half-past seven, or sooner 
if he can, to post my letters. 

4. Is there a post-office in your street ? 

5. There is no post-office in our street. 

6. There is a post-office in the French bookseller's street. 

^. The English man-servant came to fetch our letters yesterday even- 
ing at seven o'clock, before clearing the table. 

8. Coachman, v^^ill you take me to the post-office in New Street, and 
bring me home again about half-past five ? 

9. Tell, if you please, the old man-servant to bring to me and my 
brother our hot water, our boots, and our clothes, before going to post 
the letters. 

, 10. Why did the English waiter look cross this evening when he came 
for my father's letters to post them ? 



46 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

11. Ne voulez-vous pas meitre nos lettres h laposte avant voire pro- 
menade du soir ? 

12. Notre vieiix domestique avait Pair d'etre de bien mauvaise humeur 
lorsqu'il est venu liier au soir chercher nos lettres pour les mettre k la 
poste. 



SEVENTH SENTENCE. 

Do you know what is the name of that rich old English lady^ tvho lives near 
the new bridge, iii the same house with a French family and a young 
German clergyman ? 

No. XXXIY. 

Savez-vous comment se nomrae . . . 
Do you know how herself names . . . 

1. Savez-vous comment se nomme la rue de I'ami de mon frere ? 

2. Est-ce que vous ne savez pas comment elle se nomme ? 

3. Dites-moi, je vous prie, comment elle se nomme. 

4. Elle se nomme la rue Neuve. 

5. Est-ce que vous savez comment se nomme le cordonnier de votre 
ami? 

6. Ne se nomme-t-il pas Le Frere ? 

•Y. Savez-vous pourquoi le gar9on ne pent pas aller mettre mes lettres 
h> la poste avant le dejeuner ? 

8, Est-ce que vous ne savez pas qu'il faut mettre nos lettres k la poste 
tons les jours, sans faute, h quatre heures et demie ? 

9. Ne savez-vous pas comment se nomme le cordonnier fran9ais de la 
rue Neuve ? 

10. Est-ce que vous ne savez pas qu'il se nomme La Rue? 

11. Savez-vous quand le libraire m'enverra le livre que ma soeur a 
achete pour moi bier matin ? 

No. XXXY. 

cette vieille dame anglaise si ricbe ... 
this old lady English so 7'ich . . <. 

1. Comment se nomme cette dame ? 

2. Savez-vous si elle est anglaise ? 

8. Est-ce que cette dame n'est pas la soeur de votre ami? 

4. Yotre soeur n'est pas si ricbe que cette vieille dame anglaise, n'est- 
ce pas ? 

5. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas me faire le plaisir de passer avec moi 
cbez la vieille dame anglaise de la rue Neuve ? 

6. Combien faut-il que je lui donne pour nous conduire, cette dame, 
ma soeur et moi, k la Banque, et chez La Rue, le cordonnier franyais ? 

1, Ne savez-vous pas, mon ami, comment se nomme cette vieille dame 
anglaise ? 



FRENCH. 47 

11. Will you not post our letters before your evening walk ? 

12. Our old man-servant looked very cross when he came last evening 
for our letters to post them. 



SEVENTH SENTENCE. 



No. XXXIY. 

1. Do you know the name of my brother's friend's street ? 

2. Do you not know its name ? 

3. Tell me, if you please, T>^hat it is called. 

4. It is called New Street. 

6. Do you not know what is the name of your friend's shoemaker ? 
6. Is he not called Le Frere ? 

Y. Do you know why the waiter cannot go to post my letters before 
breakfast ? 

8. Do you not know that our letters must be posted every day, with- 
out fail, at half-past four ? 

9. Do you not know what is the name of the French vshoemaker in 
New Street ? 

10. Do you not know that his name is La Rice ? 

11. Do you know when the bookseller will send the book which my 
sister bought for me yesterday morning ? 



No. XXXY. 

1. What is the name of that lady ? 

2. Do you know whether she is English ? 
8. Is not this lady your friend's sister ? 

4. Your sister is not so rich as this old English lady, is she ? 

5. Why will you not do me the favour of calling with me on the old 
Enghsh lady in New Street ? 

6. How much must I give him for taking this lady, my sister, and 
me, to the Bank, and to La Eue's, the French shoemaker's ? 

'7. Do you not know, my friend, what is the name of this old Enghsh 
lady? 



48 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

8. Yotre ami n'est pas si riche que vous. 

9. Est-ce que votre frere est riche ? — plus riche que vous ? 

10. Mon cocher n'est pas si riche que mon vieux domestique. 

11. Savez-vous si le gar9on peut apporter k cette vieille dame une 
tasse de kit avant de mettre nos lettres a la poste ? 

12. Ce vieux livre est pour moi, et cette tasse de cafe est pour vous. 

13. La vieille dame anglaise de la rue Neuve n'a-t-elle pas un vieux 
domestique fran9ais ? 



No. XXXYL 

qui demeure pres du pont neuf . . . 
who lives near of-iJie bridge new . . . 

1. Si vous sortez avant moi, voulez-vous me faire le plaisir de passer 
chez ce vieux libraire fran9ais qui demeure pres de la Banque ? 

2. Est-ce que votre soeur demeure pres du pont neuf ? 

S. Dites au garQon anglais, je vous prie, de porter mes bottines ce 
soir sans faute chez le cordonnier qui demeure dans la rue Neuve, pres 
du pont. 

4. Combien faut-il que mon frere donne au cocher, pour conduire 
cette dame pres du pont neuf, chez la soeur de mon ami ? - 

5. Le vieux domestique qui est venu ce soir chercher nos lettres pour 
les mettre ^ la poste avait Fair d'etre de bien mauvaise humeur. 

6. Est-ce que cette vieille dame anglaise demeure pres du pont de 
Londres ? 

Y. Est-ce que vous ne savez pas qu'elle ne demenre pas h. Londres ? 

8. Demandez au libraire qui demeure pres de chez ma soeur quand 
il nous enverra le livre qu'elle a achete pour nous il y a quatre ou cinq 
j ours. 

9. Est-ce que le gar9on qui est venu desservir ce soir n'est pas 
fran9ais ? 

10. II y a trois jours que cette dame a achete un livre chez le libraire 
qui demeure pres du pont neuf: quand le lui enverra-t-il ? 

11. N'avez-vous pas besoin, mon ami, d'aller avant votre promenade 
du matin chez la dame anglaise qui demeure pres de la Banque ? 

12. Vous avez besoin de passer chez elle sans faute apres le second 
dejeuner. 

No. XXXYII. 

dans la meme maison . . . 
in the same house . . . 

1. La maison de votre pere n'est-elle pas pr^s de la Banque ? 

2. Dites k la domestique d'aller vers cinq heures, ou plus tot si elle 
peut, chercher un livre fran9ais chez la vieille dame anglaise qui demeure 
dans la meme maison que ma soeur. 

3. Est-ce que votre frere n'a pas achete une vieille maison pres du 
pont neuf? 

4. Ma soeur enverra le livre que vous avez achete k cette vieille dame 
anglaise qui demeure dans la meme maison que mon pere. 



FRENCH. 49 

8. Your friend is not so rich as you, 

9. Is your brother rich ? — richer than you ? 

10. My coachman is not so rich as my old man-servant 

11. Do you know if the waiter can bring this old lady a cup of milk 
before posting our letters ? 

12. This old book is for me and this cup of coffee is for you. 

13. Has not the old English lady in New Street an old French man- 
servant ? 



Xo. XXXYI. 

1. If you go out before me, will you do me the favour of calling at 
the old French bookseller's who lives near the Bank ? 

2. Does your sister live near the new bridge ? 

3. Tell the English waiter, if you please, to take my boots this even- 
ing without fail to the shoemaker who lives in New Street, near the 
bridge. 

4. How much must my brother give to the cabman to take this lady 
to my friend's sister's, near the new bridge ? 

5. The old man-servant who came this evening for our letters to post 
them looked very cross. 

6. Does this old English lady live near London Bridge ? 

7. Do you not know that she does not live in London ? 

8. Ask the bookseller who lives near my sister's when he will send 
us the book she bought for us four or five days ago. 

9. Is not the waiter who came to clear the table this evening a 
Frenchman ? 

10. It is three days since that lady bought a book at the bookseller's 
who lives near the new bridge : when will he send it to her ? 

11. Do you not want, my friend, to go before your morning walk to 
the Enghsh lady's who lives near the Bank ? 

12. You want to call on her, without fail, after lunch. 



No. XXXYII. 

1. Is not your father's house near the Bank ? 

2. Tell the servant to go at about five o'clock, or sooner if she can, 
for a French book to the old English lady's who lives in the same house 
as my sister. 

3. Has not your brother bought an old house near the new bridge ? 

4. My sister will send the book which you have bought to that old 
English lady who lives in the same house as'^my father. 



50 THE MASTERY SEEIEB. 

5. Dites k la domestique, je vous prie, de m'apporter a sept h cures, 
et meme plus tot, si elle peut, mes bottines,et mes habits bien brosses. 

6. Ce cocher n'a pas le meme fiacre qu'il avait il y a trois ou quatre 
jours — il avait un vieux fiacre, et il a aujourd'hui un fiacre neuf. 

7. Le voulez-vous pour aller pres de la Banque chez ce vieux libraire 
si riche qui demeure dans la meme maison que I'ami de mon frere ':* 

8. Est-ce le meme livre que vous avez achete avant-hier matin ? — il a 
Pair vieux, et le livre que vous avez achete avait Fair neuf. 

9. Le vieux francais qui demeure dans la meme maison que cette 
vieille dame anglaise, est-il plus riche qu'elle ? 

10. Est-ce que la -maison de cette vieille dame est neuve? 

11. Gar con, voulez-vous me faire le plaiser d' aller chez le cordonnier 
qui est venu hier, pour faire elargir mes bottines ? 

12. Savez-vous si le frere de cette vieille dame anglaise demeure dans 
la meme maison qu'elle ? 

No. XXXYIII. 

ou il y a une famille frangaise . . . 
where it there has a family French . . . 

1. Savez-vous oii demeure cette vieille dame frangaise? 

2. Elle demeure dans la meme maison ou il y a un libraire anglais. 

3. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas me faire le plaisir d'aller demain en 
fiacre avec ma soeur, chez cette dame fran9aise qui demeure pres du pont 
neuf? 

4. Cette famille anglaise demeure dans la meme maison que cette 
vieille dame frangaise qui est si riche. 

5. Ou est le livre que ma soeur a achete il y a quatre ou cinq jours 
pour la dame fran9aise qui demeure chez elle ? 

6. Cette dame est-elle fran9aise ou anglaise ? 

v. Est-ce une famille anglaise ou une famille fran9aise qu'il y a dans 
cette maison ? 

8. Si vous sortez demain matin, demandez en passant au libraire 
quand il enverra le livre qu'une dame fran9aise a achete chez lui il y a 
quatre jours. 

9. Dites a la domestique fran9aise de ne pas m'apporter I'eau chaude 
dans un vieux pot et le cafe dans une vieille tasse. 

10. Ou rami de votre frere demeure-t-il ? 

11. II demeure a Londres, rue de la Banque, chez une famille fran9aise. 

12. Dites au cocher de me conduire a la Banque fran9aise qui est pr^s 
du pont neuf. 

13. Est-ce que cette famille fran9aise demeure dans la meme maison 
que le libraire anglais ? 

14. La dame fran9aise n'est pas si riche que la vieille dame anglaise. 

No. XXXIX. 
et un jeune ministre allemand. 
and a young clergyman German. 

1. Est-ce que votre frere est plus jeune que vous ? 

2. Ne voulez-vous pas me faire le plaisir de passer demain chez ce 
jeune Allemand qui demeure pres du pont de Londres ? 



FKEMCH. 51 

5. Tell the servant, if you please, to bring me at seven o'clock, and 
even sooner, if she can, my boots, and my clothes well brushed. 

6. This cabman has not the same cab which he had three or four 
days ago ; he had an old cab, and to-day he has a new one. 

7. Do you wish to have it to go near the Bank to that rich old 
bookseller's who lives in the same house as my brother's friend ? 

8. Is this the same book which you bought the day before yesterday 
in the morning? — it looks old, and the book which you bought looked 
like a new one. 

9. Is the old Frenchman who lives in the same house as this old 
English lady richer than she ? 

10. Is that old lady's house new ? 

11 Waiter, will you do me the favour of going to the shoemaker's who 
came yesterday, to have my boots stretched ? 

12. Do you know if this old Enghsh lady's brother lives in the same 
house as she does ? 

xo. xxxvm. 

1. Do you know where this old French lady lives ? 

2. She lives in the same house as an English bookseller. 

3. Why will you not do me the favour of going to-morrow in a cab 
with my sister, to that French lady's who lives near the new bridge ? 

4. This English family lives hi the same house as that old French lady 
who is so rich. 

5. Where is the book which my sister bought four or five days ago 
for the French lady who lives at her house ? 

6. Is this lady French or English ? 

T. Is it an English or a French family that is in this house ? 

8. If you go out to-morrow morning, ask the bookseller on your way, 
when hewill send the book which a French lady bought at his house 
four days ago. 

9. Tell the French servant not to bring me the hot water in an old 
pitcher and the coffee in an old cup. 

10. Where does your brother's friend live ? 

11. He lives in London, in Bank Street, with a French family. 

12. Tell the coachman to take me to the French Bank near the new 
bridge. 

13. Does this French family live in the same house as the English 
bookseller ? 

14. The French lady is not so rich as the old English lady. 

Xo. XXXIX. 

1. Is your brother younger than you ? 

2. Will you not do me the favour of calling to-morrow on that young 
German who lives near London Brid^^e ? 



52 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

8. Est-ce chez le libraire frangais ou chez le libraire allemand que 
vous voulez aller avant de faire votre promenade du matin ? 

4. Vous n'avez pas busoin de passer chez le libraire pour le livre 
allemand que ma soeur a achete : il Penverra demain matin sans faute. 

5. Ce ministre allemand qui demeure chez une famille fran9aise est un 
ami de mon pere. 

6. Comment se nomme le ministre fran9ais qui demeure pres de la 
Banque ? 

'T. II y a dans cette maison une famille anglaise, une vieille dame 
franyaise, un libraire fran9ais, un jeune ministre anglais et un vieux 
ministre allemand. 

8. Pourquoi cette jeune anglaise demeure-t-elle chez une famille 
frangaise ? 

9. Pourquoi ce jeune fran9ais ne demeure-t-il pas chez une famille 
anglaise ? 

10. Yotre cocher est-il fran9ais ou allemand ? 

11. II n'est pas fran9ais ; il n'est pas allemand : il est anglais. 

12. Mon vieux domestique allemand avait Pair d'etre de bien mauvaise 
humeur quand il est venu desservir. 

13. Savez-vous comment se nomme cette vieille dame fran9aise si riehe 
qui demeure pres du pont de Londres dans la maison ou il y a une famille 
anglaise, et un jeune libraire allemand ? 



EIGHTH SENTENCE. 

I have had for less than two francs^ in a large shop in Paris, where every- 
thing is sold cheap, some very fine note paper, some excellent steel pens, 
a7id a pretty little hlotting-booh 

No. XL. 

J'ai eu pour moins de deux francs ... 
I have had for less of two francs . . . 

1. Est-ce deux francs ou trois francs qu'il faut que je donne au cocher 
pour nous conduire au pont neuf et nous ramener chez nous ? 

2. J'ai achete avant-hier un livre anglais pour cinq francs, un livre 
fran9ais pour quatre,et un livre allemand pour deux. 

8. Avez-vous eu ce matin votre tasse de cafe avant sept heures et 
demie ? 

4. Le jeune allemand qui demeure avec mon pere est venu de Londres 
chez nous en moins de deux heures. 

5. Dites au domestique de m'apporter aujourd'hui plus de cafe et 
moins de lait, et Peau bien chaude. 

6. J'ai tons les jours mon dejeuner pour moins de d^ux francs. 

'7. Je donne moins pour mon second dejeuner que pour mon dejeuner. 
8. J'ai besoin d'aller aujourd'hui avant deux heures sans faute chez 
la vieille dame fran9aise qui demeure pres du pont de Londres. 



FEENCH. 53 

3. Is it to the French or to the German bookseller's that you wish to 
go before taking your morning walk ? 

4. You need not call at the bookseller's for the German book which 
my sister bought : he will send it to-morrow morning without fail. 

5. That German clergyman, who lives with a French family, is a 
friend of my father, 

6. What is the name of the French clergyman who lives near the 
Bank? 

Y. There are in this house an English flimily, an old French lady, a 
French bookseller, a young EngUsh clergyman, and an old German 
clergyman. 

8. Why does this young English lady live with a French family ? 

9. Why does not this young Frenchman live with an Enghsh family? 

10. Is your coachman French or German? 

11. He is not French ; he is not German; he is Enghsh. 

12. My old German man-servant looked very cross when he came in to 
clear the table. 

13. Do you know the name of this old rich French lady who lives 
near London Bridge, in the house in which there is an English family 
and a young German bookseller ? 



EIGHTH SEXTEXCE. 



No. XL. 



1. Must I give two or three francs to the cabman to take us to the 
new bridge, and back again ? 

2. I bought the day before yesterday an English book for five francs, 
a French book for four, and a German one for two. 

3. Have you had your cup of coffee this morning before half-past 
seven ? 

4. The young German who lives with my father has come from 
London to our house in less than two hours. 

5. Tell the man-servant to bring me to-day more coffee and less milk, 
and the water very hot. 

6. I have my breakfast every day for less than two francs. 

7. I give less for my lunch than for my breakfast. 

8. I want to go to-day before two o'clock, without fail, to the old 
French lady's who lives near London Bridge. 



^4 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

9. J'ai un frere plus jeune que moi qui demeure k Londres cbez une 
famille fran9aise. 

10. Ai-je besoin d'un fiacre pour aller h la Banque et chez La Hue, le 
cordonnier frangais ? 

11. Savez-vous comment se nomme le livre allemand que j'ai achete 
pour mon jeune frere il y a deux ou trois jours ? 

12. Est-ce plus ou moins de cinq francs qu'il faut que la domestique 
donne pour les bottines que le cordonnier enverra ce soir ou demain 
matin ? 

No. XLI. 

dans un grand magasin de Paris . . . 
in a large shop of Paris . . . 

1. Est-ce que le magasin du libraire fran^ais est plus grand que le 
magasin du libraire allemand ? 

2. La domestique peut-elle nous apporter, h. moi et k mon ami, un 
grand pot d'eau chaude et nos habits bien brosses avant sept heures ? 

8. Paris n'est pas si grand que Londres, n?est-ce pas ? 

4. Yotre jeune soeur demeure-t-elle h Londres ou ^ Paris? 

5. Cocher, voulez-vous nous conduire, cette dame et moi, au grand 
magasin de cordonnier qu'il y a dans la rue Neuve, et nous ramener chez 
nous vers deux heures ? 

6. Le jeune ministre allemand qui demeure dans la meme maison que 
votre ?oeur, est grand ami de mon frere. 

^. Sayez-Yous comment se nomme ce libraire de Paris qui a un grand 
magasin pres du pont de Londres ? 

8. Combien faut-il de temps pour aller de Londres h. Paris ? 

9. Savez-vous combien il y a de Paris k Londres ? 

10. Youlez-vous aller k Paris avec ma soeur, mon ami et moi, pour 
quatre ou cinq jours ? 

11. J'ai achete mes bottines a Paris dans le meme magasin oh. vous 
avez achete les bottines de votre soeur. 

12. II y a dans la maison ou demeure mon frere a Paris, une famille 
anglaise, une jeune dame fran9aise et un vieux ministre allemand. 

13. Pourquoi le domestique fran9ais avait-il I'air d'etre de si mauvaise 
humeur lorsqu'il est venu ce soir apporter nos lettres de Paris ? 



:n'o. xlil 

Ou tout se vend bon marche . . . 
Where all itself sells good bargain . . . 

1. Le cafe est-il bon marche k Londres ? 

2. Le cafe n'est pas si bon marche k Londres qu'^ Paris. 

3. N'est-ce pas bon marche deux francs pour aller de chez moi k la 
Banque ? 

4. Le kit n'est pas si bon chez mon frere que chez ma soeur. 

5. Dites a la domestique francaise d'apporter k sept heures et demie 
sans faute, ou plus tot meme si elle pent, une tasse de bon cafe pour 
moi, et une tasse de bon lait pour ma soeur. 



FBENCH. 55 

9. I have a brother younger than I, who lives in London with a 
French family. 

10. Do I require a cab to go to the Bank and to La Rite's^ the French 
shoemaker. 

11. Do you know what is the name of the German book which I bought 
for my young brother two or three days ago ? 

12. Must the servant give more or less than five francs for the boots 
which the shoemaker will send this evening or to-morrow morning ? 



No. XLL 

i. Is the French bookseller's shop larger than the German book- 
seller's shop ? 

2. Can the servant bring me and my friend a large jug of hot water 
and our clothes well brushed before seven o'clock ? 

S. Paris is not so large as London, is it ? 

4. Is your young sister living in London or in Paris ? 

5. Cabman, will you take this lady and me to the large shoemaker's 
shop that is in Xew Street, and home again about two o'clock ? 

6. The young German clergym^an who lives in the same house as your 
sister is a great friend of my brother. 

'7, Do you know the name of this Paris bookseller who has a large 
shop near London Bridge ? 

8. How long does it take to go from London to Paris ? 

9. Do you know how far it is from Paris to London ? 

10. Will you go to Paris with my sister, my friend, and me, for four or 
five days ? 

11. I have bought my boots in Paris at the same shop at which you 
bought your sister's boots. 

12. There are in the house where my brother lives in Paris, an English 
family, a young French lady, and an old German clergyman. 

13. Why did the French man-servant look so cross when he came this 
eveninof to brino; in our Paris letters ? 



No. XLIL 

1. Is cofi'ee cheap in London ? 

2. Coffee is not so cheap in London as in Paris. 

3. Is it not cheap at two francs for going from my house to the Bank ? 

4. The milk is not so good at my brother's as at my sister's. 

5. Tell the French servant to bring at half-past seven without fail, or 
even sooner if she can, a cup of good coffee for me, and a cup of good 
milk for my sister. 



56 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

6. Le lalt n^e&t pas si bon aujourd'hui qu'hler. 

7. Cambien se vend le cafe k Londres ? 

8. Et le lait, combien se veod-il k Paris 2 

9. Youlez-vous me conduire k ce grand magasin de la rue Neuve oik 
tout se vend si bon marche ? ^ 

10. Voulez-vous me faire le plaisir de m'apporter de cbez le libraire 
qui demeure dans la*meme maison que votre famille un bon livre fran9ais 
et un bon livre allemand ? 

11. Avez-vous besoin d'un bon cocber anglais et d^un bon domestique 
fran9ais ? 

12. Est-ce que le livre que vous avez acliete il y a deux ou trois jours, 
pres du pont neuf, ne se vend que cinq francs ? 

13. J'ai besoin d'un bon fiacre pour aller ce soir pres de la Poste chez 
cette vieille dame anglaise si riche qui demeure dans la meme maison 
que votre jeune frere* 



No. XLIII. 

Bu papier h lettre tres-bean. 
Some paper to letter very fine, 

1. Si le papier a lettre que vous avez achete n'est pas beau, il est du 
moins bon marche. 

2. II y a dans ce grand magasin de Paris du papier tres-beau et tres- 
bon marche. 

8. II faut que mon frere donne cette lettre, ce livre et ce papier an 
jeune ministre allemand qui demeure chez vous, avant de faire sa prome- 
nade du matin. 

4. Deroandez k mon ami, je vous prie, s'il n^enverra pas le domestique 
mettre cette lettre k la poste avant le dejeuner ? 

5. Est-ce que le pont de Londres n'est pas plus grand et plus beau 
que le Pont-Neuf k Paris ? 

6. Le papier k lettre que vous avez achete k Paris n^est pas si bon 
que le papier anglais. 

*!. N'est-il pas plus grand et plus beau ? 

8. Si vous sortez avant moi, voulez-vous me faire le plaisir de m'ap- 
porter du papier k lettre, et de chez le libraire fran9ais un livre qui se 
nomme * Frere et Soeur ' ? 

9. Dites a la vieille domestique, je vous prie^ d'aller mettre cette lettre 
k la poste avant de m'apporter mes bottines et mes habits. 

10. Si le fiacre que j'ai pour aller k la Banque n'est pas beau, du 
moins il est bon. 

11. Quand voulez-vous aller avec moi et votre jeune frere chez le 
libraire qui a un si beau magasin pres de la maison de notre ami ? 

12. La jeune dame fran9aise qui demeure dans la meme maison que 
ma soeur a achete chez ce libraire un tres-beau livre pour moins de sept 
francs ; n'est-ce pas bien bon marche ? 



FREN^CH. 57 

6. The milk i3 not so good to-day as yesterday. 

7. What is the price of coffee in London ? 

8. And how much is milk in Paris ? 

9. Will you take me to that large shop in New Street, where every 
thing is sold so cheap ? 

10. Will you do me the favour to bring me from the bookseller's who 
lives in the same house as your family a good French book and a good 
German one ? 

11. Do you want a good English coachman and a good French man- 
servant ? 

12. Is the book which you bought two or three days ago,near the new 
bridge, sold only for five francs ? 

13. I want a good cab to go this evening near the Post-office to that 
rich old English lady's who lives in the same house as your young 
brother. 



No. XLIII. 

1 . If the note paper which you have bought is not fine, it is at least 
cheap. 

2. There is in this large Paris shop very fine and very cheap paper. 
8. My brother must give this letter, this book, and this paper to the 

young German clergyman who lives in your house, before taking his 
morning walk. 

4. Ask my friend, if you please, if he will not send the man-servant 
to post this letter before breakfast. 

5. Is not London Bridge larger and finer than the Pont-Neuf in Paris? 

6. The note paper which you bought in Paris is not so good as the 
EngHsh paper. 

7. Is it not larger and finer ? 

8. If you go out before me, will you do me the favour of bringing 
me some note paper, and from the French bookseller's a book called 
* Frere et Soeur ' ? 

9. Tell the old servant, if you please, to go and post this letter 
before bringing me my boots and my clothes. 

10. If the cab I have to go to the Bank is not handsome, at least 
it is good. 

11. When will you go with me and your young brother to the book- 
seller's who has such a fine shop near our friend's house ? 

12. The young French lady who lives in the same house as my sis- 
ter bought at this bookseller's a very fine book for less than seven 
francs ; is it not very cheap ? 

3* 



58 THE MASTEEY SEEIESc 

No. XLIY. 

des plumes metalliques excellentes ... 
some pens metallic excellent ... 

1. La Rue, le cordonnier de Paris, qui demeure pres de la Poste, vend 
des bottes excellentes. 

2. Combien faut-il que je donne pour un fiacre pour me conduire h. ce 
grand magasin pres du pont de Londres, ou tout se vend si bon marche, 
et ou vous avez achete des plumes metalliques ? 

8. Pourquoi n'avez vous pas achete des plumes dans le meme maga- 
sin ou vous avez achete le papier h lettre ? 

4. J'ai besoin d'aller k Londres demain sans faute pour chercher un 
livre allemand, du papier a lettre et des plumes metalliques. 

5. Si vous voulez du papier a lettre bon et beau, et d'excellentes 
plumes metalliques, il faut aller a ce grand magasin qui est pres du 
pont neuf. 

6. II me faut au moins cinq ou six plumes tons les jours. 

'7. Comment se nomme la rue ou il y a ce grand magasin de Paris o^ 
vous avez achete avant-hier matin du papier a lettre si beau, et des plumes 
excellentes ? 

8. Avez-vous besoin aujourd'hui de papier h lettre et de plumes 
metalliques ? 

9. Youlez-vous porter a ma soeur, avant de faire votre promenade 
du matin, le papier h lettre que j'ai achete pour elle a Londres il y a 
Irois ou quatre jours ? 

10. II y a dans la rue Neuve pres de la maison ou demeure cette 
vieille dame anglaise si riche, un tres-grand magasin o^ j'ai achete du 
papier a lettre tres-bon et tres-beau, et des plumes metalliques excel- 
lentes h. tres-bon marche. 

No. XLY, 

et un joli petit buvard . . . 

and. a pretty Utile hlotting-case ... 

1. La domestique fran9aise a achete dans un petit magasin ou tout se 
vend tres-bon marche, un joli pot a I'eau pour moins de deux francs. 

2. Et moi, j'ai eu dans le meme magasin, pour deux francs, un tres-joli 
pot-au-lait. 

3. Demand'ez en passant ^ mon p^re quand il enverra h, ma soeur le 
buvard qu'il a achete h Paris pour elle. 

4. Est-ce que I'ami de mon frere, ce jeune ministre allemand, n'est 
pas plus petit que moi ? 

5. II est meme plus petit que ma soeur : il est tres-petlt. 

6. Y a-t-il du papier a lettre dans votre buvard ? 

v. Le vieux domestique avait Fair d'etre de tres-mauvaise humeur 
lorsqu'il est venu m'apporter mon buvard et mes lettres du matin. 

8. La dame fran9aise qui demeure chez le ministre allemand a eu 
dans ce grand magasin de Paris qui est pres du marche un buvard tres- 
joli pour moins de trois francs. 

9. Tout est joh, et bon marche dans ce magasin. 



FRENCH, 59 



No. XLIY. 



1. La Rue^ the Paris bootmaker, who lives near the Post-office, sells 
excellent boots. 

2. How much must I give for a cab to take me to this large shop 
near London Bridge, where every thing is sold so cheap, and where you 
have bought steel pens ? 

3. Why have you not bought some pens in the same shop where you 
bought the note paper ? 

4. I want to go to London to-morrow without fail for a G^man book, 
some note paper, and steel pens. 

5. If you wish to have good and fine note paper, and excellent steel 
pens, you must go to that large shop which is near the new bridge. 

6. I want at least five or six pens every day. 

7. What is the name of the street where there is that large Paris 
shop, where you bought the day before yesterday in the morning such 
fine note paper and excellent pens ? 

8. Do you want note paper and steel pens to-day ? 

9. Will you take to my sister before taking your morning walk the 
note paper which I bought for her in London three or four days ago ? 

10. There is in New Street, near the house where this rich old Enghsh 
lady lives, a very large shop Avhere I have bought very good and very 
fine note paper, and excellent steel pens very cheap. 



No. XLT. 

1. The French servant bought in a small shop, where every thing is 
sold very cheap, a pretty water pitcher for less than two francs. 

2. And I have bought in the same shop, for two francs, a very pretty 
milk-jug. 

3. Ask my father, when you pass, when he will send my sister the 
blotting-book which he bought in Paris for her. 

4. Is not my brother's friend, this young German clergyman, shorter 
than I ? 

5. He is even shorter than my sister ; he is very short. 

6. Is there any letter paper in your blotting-book ? 

'7. The old man-servant looked very cross when he came to bring me 
my blotting-book and my morning letters. 

8. The French lady who lives at the German clergyman's bought in 
this large Paris shop which is near the market a very pretty blotting- 
book for less than three francs. 

9. Every thing is pretty and cheap in this shop. 



60 THE ]VIASTERY SERIES. 

10. Si vous sortez ce matin, voulez-vous m'apporter de chez votre 
libraire un joli livre fran9ais pour mon petit frere ? 

11. Gar9on, voulez-vous porter mes bottines, pour les faire elargir, 
chez le cordonnier fran9ais qui demeure pres du petit pont ? 

12. Savez-vous, mon ami, quand votre pere m'enverra le petit livre 
allemand que j'ai acliete chez lui il y a plus de trois jours ? 

13. Le petit buvard n'est-il pas pour ma soeur, et le grand pour cette 
jeune anglaise qui demeure dans la meme maison qu'elle ? 



NINTH SENTENCE. 



Yes, if it is as fine as yesterday, call my son early; hut first light afire in his 
bed-roonij and afterwards in his sitting-room, because he has a had, cold. 

No. XLYI. 

Oui, s'il fait aussi beau qu'hier , . . 
Yes, if it makes as fine as yesterday . , . 

1. Fait-il beau ce matin ? 

2. Oui, il fait tres-beau. 

8. Est-ce qu'il ne fait pas beau aujourd'hui? 

4. II ne fait pas si beau qu^hier et qu'avant-hier. 

5. Fait-il aussi beau qu'hier au soir ? 

6. II fait bien beau ! 

7. II fait plus beau qu^hier matin. 

8. S'il fait beau demain matin, voulez-vous faire une promenade avec 
nous pres du vieux pont? 

9. Oui, mon ami : et pourquoi pas aujourd'hui m^me ? 

10. Est-ce que le papier a lettre fran9ais est aussi beau que le papier 
k lettre anglais ? 

11. II ne fait pas tres-beau ce soir — est-ce pour cela ma soeur est de si 
mauvaise humeur ? 

12. Si vous avez besoin de bottines, il faut aller chez La Rue, le cor- 
donnier fran9ais qui demeure pres de la Banque ; il fait des bottines 
excellentes a tres-bon marche. 

13. Voulez-vouSj sMl fait beau, y aller avec moi apres le dejeuner? 

14. Oui, mon ami, avec plaisir. 

15. S'il fait demain matin aussi beau que ce soir, dites au domestique 
allemand, je vous prie, de nous apporter a moi et a mon frere a sept 
heures, ou plus tot meme s'il peut, nos bottines et nos habits, et un 
grand pot d'eau chaude. 

No. XL VII. 

eveillez mon fils de bonne heure . . . 
wahe my son of good hour . . . 

1. Pourquoi ne m'eveillez-vous pas tous les jours h. sept heures et 
demie ? 

2, S'il fait beau, eveillez-moi de bonne heure. 



FEEKCH. . 61 

10. If you go out this morning, will you bring me from your book- 
seller's a pretty French book for my little brother ? 

11. Waiter, will you take my boots to have them stretched, to the 
French bootmaker's, who lives near the little bridge ? 

12. Do you know, my boy, when your father will send me the little 
German book which I bought in his shop more than three days ago ? 

13. Is not the little blotting-book for my sister, and the large one for 
that young English lady who lives in the same house as she ? 



NINTH SENTENCE. 



No. XLVI. 



1. Is it fine (weather) this morning ? 

2. Yes, it is very fine. 

3. Is it not fine to-day ? 

4. It is not so fine as yesterday and the day before yesterday. 

5. Is it as fine as yesterday evening ? 

6. It is extremely fine. 

1. It is finer than yesterday morning. 

8. If it is fine to-morrow morning, will you take a walk with us near 
the old bridge ? 

9. Yes, my friend ; and why not to-day ? 

10. Is the French letter paper as fine as the English ? 

11. It is not very fine this evening : is that why my sister is in such a 
bad humour ? 

12. If you want any boots you must go to Za JRue^s, the French boot- 
maker, who lives near the Bank ; he makes excellent boots and very 
cheap. 

13. If it is fine weather, will you go there with me after breakfast ? 

14. Yes, my good fellow, with pleasure. 

15. If it is as fine to-morrow morning as this evening, tell the German 
manservant, if you please, to bring me and my brother, at seven, or 
even sooner if he can, our boots and our clothes, and a large pitcher of 
hot water. 

No. XLYII. 

1. Why do you not call me every day at half-past seven ? 

2. If it is fine, call me early. 



62 THE MASTEEY SERIES. 

8. S'il ne fait pas beau, ne m'eveillez qu'apres sept heures. 

4. Est-ce plus de deux francs qu'il faut que mon fils donne pour un 
fiacre pour le conduire pres du grand pont ? 

5. Le vieux domestique est venu plus tot aujourd'hui chercher les 
lettres de votre fils pour les mettre a la poste. 

6. II est meme venu de tres-bonne heure. 

'7. Est-ce que vous n'avez pas besoin d'aller a Londres des tres-bonne 
heure ? 

8. Oui, j'ai besom d'y aller vers sept heures avec mon fils et la jeune 
dame fran9aise qui demeure dans la rue Neuve. 

9. Lorsqu'il fait beau, eveillez-moi de bonne heure. 

10. Dites au domestique de m'apporter tons les jours, de bonne heure, 
une tasse de bon cafe au lait, 

11. Si vous sortez de bonne heure domain matin, demandez en passant 
a La Rue quand il m'enverra mes bottines. 

12. Mon fils est de mauvaise humeur quand vous ne Teveillez pas de 
bonne heure. 

13. Ma soeur est aussi bonne qu'elle est riche. 

14. Est-ce qu'il est de bonne heure ? 



No. XLYIII, 



mais auparavant faites du feu 
hut previously make some fire . 



1. Faites du feu, je vous prie, avant de m'apporter I'eau chaude. 

2. Voulez-vous m'apporter mes bottines ? 

8. Faites-moi faire une tasse de cafe pour sept heures et demie. 

4. Savez-vous pourquoi le vieux domestique fran9ais avait Fair d'etre 
de si mauvaise humeur quand il est venu ce matin faire du feu ? 

5. Avez-vous besoin de feu demain matin ? 

6. Oui, eveillez-nous de bonne heure, mon ami et moi, et faites un 
bon feu. 

Y. Yous dites que vous avez besoin d'aller a la Banque ; mais n'avez- 
vous pas besoin d'aller a la Poste auparavant ? 

8. Faites-moi le plaisir, mon ami, de m'apporter de Paris, pour ma 
jeune soeur, un joli buvard de quatre ou cinq francs. 

9. Mon frere est plus grand que moi, mais le jeune allemand qui 
demeure chez vous est plus grand que mon frere, et meme plus grand que 
mon ami, qui est si grand. 

10. Si vous sortez apres le second dejeuner, faites-moi le plaisir de 
passer chez cette jeune dame anglaise qui demeure dans la meme maison 
que mon frere. 

11. Mais demandez auparavant au Hbraire de la rue Neuve un livre 
fran9ais-allemand que mon fils a achete pour moi il y a deux ou trois 
jours. 

19. Dites a la domestique fran9aise d'aller mettre nos lettres a la poste 
avant le dejeuner, mais de faire du feu auparavant. 



FRENCH. 63 

3. If it is not fine, do not call me till after seven o'clock. 

4. Must my son give more than two francs for a cab to take him to 
the great bridge ? 

5. The old man-servant came earlier to-day to fetch your son's letters 
to post them. 

6. He came very early indeed. 

7. Bo you not want to go to London very early ? 

8. Yes, I want to go there at about seven o'clock with my son and 
the young French lady who lives in New Street. 

9. When it is fine, call me early. 

10. Tell the man-servant to bring me every day early a cup of good 
coffee with milk. 

11. If you go out early to-morrow morning, ask La Rue on your way 
when he will send me my boots. 

12. My son is cross when you do not call him early. 

13. My sister is as good as she is rich. 

14. Is it early ? 



Ko. XLYIII. 

1. Make a fire, if you please, before you bring me the hot water. 

2. Will you bring me my boots ? 

3. Have a cup of coffee made for me by half-past seven, 

4. Do you know why the old French man-servant looked so cross 
when he came this morning to make a fire ? 

5. Do you want any fire to-morrow morning ? 

6. Yes, call us early, my friend and me, and make a good fire. 

'7. You say you want to go to the Bank ; but do you not first want to 
go to the Post-ofl&ce ? 

8. Do me the favour, my friend, to bring me from Paris, for my 
young sister, a pretty blotting-book at four or five francs. 

9. My brother is taller than I, but the young German who lives with 
you is taller than my brother, and even taller than my friend, who is so 
tall. 

10. If you go out after lunch, do me the favour of calling on this 
young English lady who lives in the same house as my brother. 

11. But first ask the bookseller in New Street for a French and 
German book which my son bought for me two or three days ago. 

12. Tell the French servant to go and post our letters before the 
breakfast, but to make a fire first. 



64 THE MASTESY SERIES. 



No. XLIX. 

d^abord dans sa chambre h. coucher . . . 
at first in his room to lie-down . . . 

1. SUl n'y a pas de feu dans notre chambre h coucher, faites-en. 

2. Eveillez ma soeur vers sept heures et demie, mais faites auparavant 
du feu dans sa chambre. 

8. II faut aller nous coucher ce soir de bonne heure. 

4. Si vous avez besoin d'une bonne chambre h coucher, il y en a une 
dans la maison ou demeure votre ami. 

5. Combien demandez-vous pour cette chambre? 

6. Faites du feu, je vous prie, dans la chambre de mon pere, et dans 
la chambre de ma soeur. 

'7. Combien y a-t-il de temps que vous avez fait du feu dans notre 
chambre ? 

8. Savez-vous comment se nomme ce jeune allemand qui a une 
chambre dans la maison ou demeure mon ami ? 

9. Pourquoi n'avez-vous pas fait de feu hier au soir dans ma chambre 
k coucher ? 

10. S'il fait tres-beau demain matin, eveillez mon petit-fils de bonne 
heure, mais faites d'abord un bon feu dans sa chambre a coucher. 

11. Est-ce que ma soeur est dans sa chambre ? 

12. Oui, elle y est avec cette jeune dame fran9aise qui a sa famille h 
Paris. 



No. L. 

et ensuite dans son salon. . . . 

and afterwards in his sitting-room ... 

1. Est-ce dans votre chambre k coucher ou dans votre salon qu'ilfaut 
faire du feu ? 

2. Faites du feu dans les deux, mais d'abord dans la chambre et 
ensuite dans le salon. 

3. Si vous faites du feu dans le salon de mon grand-pere, n'en faites 
pas dans sa chambre k coucher. 

4. Le livre que j'ai achete hier pour mon petit frere n'est 11 pas dans 
votre salon avec mon buvard ? 

5. Dites a la domestique d'aller chercher un fiacre, et faites-moi le 
plaisir d'aller pour moi d'abord a la Poste, et ensuite k la Banque 
fran9aise. 

6. Ma soeur avait k Paris une chambre a coucher et un joli petit 
salon dans la maison ou demeure cette vieille dame anglaise qui est si 
riche et si bonne. 

'7. Son salon n'est-il pas tres-grand et tres-beau ? 

8. Cocher, voulez-vous conduire mon pere et son ami d'abord chez le 
libraire fran9ais dans la rue Neuve, et ensuite k ce grand magasin de 
Paris, qui est pres du vieux pont, et ou tout se vend si bon marche. 

9. Notre salon n'est pas grand ; mais n'est-il pas tres joli ? 
10. Ma soeur est-elle dans le grand ou dans le petit salon ? 



FEENCH. 65 



No. XLIX. 

1. If there is no fire in our bed-room, make one. 

2. Call my sister at about half-past seven, but first make a fire in her 
bed-room. 

3. We must go to bed this evening early. 

4. If you want a good bed-room, there is one in the house in which 
your friend lives. 

5. How much do you ask for this room ? 

6. Make a fire, if you please, in my father's room, and in my sister's 
room. 

'7. How long is it since you made a fire in our bed-room ? 

8. Do you know what is the name of that young German who has a 
bed-room in the house in which my friend lives ? 

9. Why did you not make a fire yesterday evening in my bed-room ? 

10. K it is very fine to-morrow morning, call my grandson early, but 
first make a good fire in his bed-room. 

11. Is my sister in her bed-room ? 

12. Yes, she is there, with this young French lady whose family is in 
Paris. 



Xo. L. 

1. Must I light a fire in your bed-room, or in your sitting-room ? 

2. Light a fire in both, but first in the bed-room, and afterwards in 
the drawing-room. 

3. If you light 
any in his bed-room. 

4. Is not the book which I bought yesterday for my little brother in 
your drawing-room with my blotting-book ? 

5. Tell the servant to go and fetch a cab, and do me the favour to go 
for me first to the Post-office, and afterwards to the French Bank. 

6. My sister had in Paris a bed-room and a pretty little sitting-room 
in the house in which that rich and good old English lady lives. 

7. Is not her drawing-room very large and very fine ? 

8. Coachman, will you take my father and his friend first to the 
French bookseller's in Xew Street, and afterwards to that large Paris 
shop, which is near the old bridge, and where every thing is sold so very 
cheap ? 

9. Our drawing-room is not large ; but is it not very pretty ? 
10. Is my sister in the large drawing-room or in the small one ? 



66 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

11. Elle est dans le petit salon avec son petit gar9on et sa bonne. 

12. II n'y a pas de feu dans le petit salon, mais il y a un tres-bon feu 
dans le grand salon. 

No. LL 

parce qu'il est tres-enrliume 

because that he is very-much attacked-hy-told. 

1. Est-ce que votre frere est enrhume ? 

2. Ce n'est pas lui que est enrhume, c'est mon pere. 

8. II est tres-enrhume ce matin ; c'est pourquoi il a besoin de feu 
dans sa ctiambre a coucher. 

4. Dites au domestique de m'apporter mon eau chaude, mes habits et 
mes bottines de tres-bonne heure, parce que j'ai besoin d'aller h Londres 
avant le dejeuner. 

5. Mon fils est si enrhume qu'il ne pent pas aller h la Banque 
aujourd'hui. 

6. Voulez-vous me faire le plaisir d'y aller pour lui ? Mais il faut 
que je vous donne deux francs pour un fiacre, parce que la Banque n'est 
pas pres d'ici, 

7. Le vieux domestique a Fair d'etre de bien mauvaise humeur; est- 
ce parce qu'il ne pent pas aller ce soir chez son fils ? 

8. Est-ce parce que votre frere est enrhume qu'il ne pent pas aller 
aujourd'hui faire sa promenade du matin? 

9. II n'est pas si enrhume que moi. 

10. Je n'ai pas besoin de feu dans ma chambre, parce que j'en ai dans 
mon salon. 

11. L'ami de mon pere, le vieux ministre allemand, est venu lui 
apporter ce hvre hier au soir, parce qu'il en a besoin pour demain lui- 
meme. 

12. Eveillez-moi, je vous prie, de tres-bonne heure parce que j'ai 
besoin d'aller chez l'ami de mon frere avant le dejeuner. 



TENTH SENTENCE. 

You thought the other day^ my dear friend^ that their physician was still in 
France as ivell as his wife and his children^ hut no ^ they have returned 
now^ for we met them not far from the railway. 

^o. LII. 

Yous pensiez I'autre jour, mon cher ami . . . 
You thought the other day^ my dear friend . . . 

1. Ou pensiez-vous que mon beau-frere avait achete ce livre fran9ais ? 

2. Ne pensiez-vous pas qu'il 1' avait achete a Paris ? 

3. Est-il plus cher que le livre allemand que ma soeur a achete h 
Londres il y a trois ou quatre jours ? 



FEEiirCHo 67 

11. She is in the small drawing-room with her little boy and his nurse. 

12. There is no fire in the small drawing-room, but there is a very 
good fire in the large one. 



No. LI. 

1. Has your youngest brother a cold ? 

2. It is not he who has a cold, it is my father. 

3. He has a bad cold this morning ; that is why he wants a fire in his 
bed-room. 

4. Tell the man-servant to bring me my hot water, my clothes, and 
my boots very early, because I want to go to London before breakfast. 

5. My son has such a bad cold that he cannot go to the Bank to-day. 

6. Will you do me the favour to go there for him ? But I must give 
you two francs for a cab, because the Bank is not near here. 

7. The old man-servant looks very cross ; is it because he cannot go 
this evening to his son's ? 

8. Is it because your brother has a cold that he cannot go to-day to 
take his morning walk ? 

9. He has not such a cold as I have. 

10. I do not want any fire in my bed-room, because I have one in my 
sitting-room. 

11. My father's friend, the old German clergyman, came yesterday 
evening to bring him this book, because he wants it himself for to- 
morrow. 

12. Call me, if you please, very early, because I want to go to my 
brother's friend's before breakfast. 



TENTH SENTENCE. 



No. LIL 



1. Where did you think my brother-in-law had bought this French 
book? 

2. Did you not think that he had bought it in Paris ? 

3. Is it dearer than the German book which my sister bought in Lon- 
don three or four days ago ? 



68 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

4. II n'est pas si cher : il est meme tres-bon marche. 

5. Pourquoi pensiez-vous que mon fils avait achete ce buvard k 
Paris ? 

6. Parce qu'il est tres-joli et pas cher. 

I. Youlez-vous, mon cher gar9on, me faire le plaisir d'aller k Londres 
pour mon frere ; il est si enrhume qu'il ne pent pas y aller aujourd'hui. 

8. Ne pensiez-vous pas aller ce matin chez le ministre allemand qui 
demeure dans la maison de votre grand-pere ? 

9. Oui, mais j'ai besoin d'aller auparavant chercher un autre livre 
chez le libraire. 

10. Savez-vous, mon cher ami, si le libraire frangais enverra ce matin 
le livre que ma soeur a achete I'autre jour ? 

11. Mon cher pere n'est pas tres-bien aujourd'hui; il ne pent pas 
aller a la Banque, et il vous prie d'y aller pour lui apres le second 
dejeuner. 

12. Yous pensiez que mon salon etait plus petit que ma chambre h, 
coucher, mais il est plus grand, 

No. LIIL 

que leur medecin etait encore en France . ; . 
that their physician was still in France . . 

1. Comment votre beau-pere etait-il-hier lorsqu'il est venu ? 

2. II etait encore tres-enrhume. 

3. Savez-vous pourquoi le medecin de ma soeur est venu de si bonne 
heure ? 

4. Elle est tres-bien ; elle n'a pas besoin de medecin. 

5. Si vous sortez encore, demandez en passant k La Rue quand il en- 
verra son gar9on chercher mes bottines pour les elargir. 

6. Youlez-vous aller en France avec mon jeune frere ? 

7. Cette vieille dame anglaise qui etait a Paris dans la m§me 
maison que moi etait tres-riche et aussi bonne que riche. 

8. Est-ce que le jeune ministre allemand n'est pas grand ami de notre 
medecin ? 

9. S'il fait beau demain, eveillez-moi k sept heures, et meme plus tot, 
parce que j'ai besoin d'aller de bonne heure d'abord chez mon medecin, 
et ensuite chez mon libraire. 

10. Yotre grand-pere a-t-il le meme medecin que vous ? 

II. II en a un autre qui demeure tout pres de chez lui. 

12. Lorsque notre petit-fils etait en France, il a achete dans un maga- 
sin de Paris, pres du Pont-Neuf, un buvard tres-joli, du papier h lettre 
tres-beau, et des plumes metalliques excellentes pour moins de trois 
francs. 

13. Mais tout ne se vend pas aussi bon marche en France. 

14. Est-ce que le domestique n'est pas encore venu desservir ? 

No. LIY. 
ainsi que sa femme et ses enfants . . . 
as-well as his wife and his children ... 

1. Combien votre medecin a-t-il d' enfants ? 

2. Yotre beau-frere n'est-il pas k Paris avec sa femme et ses enfants ? 



FRENCH. 69 

4. It is not so dear ; it is very cheap indeed. 

5. Why did you think that my son had bought this blotting-book in 
Paris ? 

6. Because it is very pretty and not dear. 

Y. Will you, my dear fellow, do me the favour of going to London for 
my brother ? he has such a cold that he cannot go there to-day. 

8. Did you not intend to go this morning to the German clergyman's, 
who lives in your grandfather's house ? 

9. Yes, but previous to that I want to go for another book to the 
bookseller's. 

10. Do you know, my dear friend, whether the French bookseller will 
send this morning the book which my sister bought the other day ? 

11. My dear father is not very well to-day ; he cannot go to the Bank, 
and begs of you to go there for him after lunch. 

12. You thought that my drawing-room was smaller than my bed-room, 
but it is larp^er. 



No. Lin. 

1. How was your father-in-law yesterday when he came ? 

2. He had still a bad cold. 

3. Do you know why my sister's doctor came so early ? 

4. She is very well ; she does not want any doctor. 

5. If you go out again, ask La Rue on your way when he will send 
his man for my boots to stretch them. 

6. Will you go to France with my young brother ? 

'7. That old English lady, who was in Paris in the same house as I, 
was very rich, and as good as rich. 

8. Is not the young German clergyman a great friend of our physician ? 

9. If it is fine to-morrow, call me at seven, and even sooner, because 
I want to go early to my physician's first, and afterwards to my book- 
seller s, 

10. Has your grandfather the same doctor as you ? 

11. He has another, who lives quite near his house. 

12. When our grandson was in France, he bought in a store in Paris, 
near the Pont-Neuf, a very pretty blotting-book, very fine note paper, and 
excellent steel pens, for less than three francs. 

13. But every thing is not sold so cheap in France. 

14. Has not the man-servant come yet to clear the table ? 



No. LIY. 

1. How many children has your doctor ? 

2. Is not your brother-in-law in Paris with his wife and children ? 



TO THE MASTEEY SERIES. 

3. Sa soeur n'a-t-elle pas trois enfants ? 

4. ^Le plus jeune de ses enfants est tout petit, mais elle en a un qui 
est tres-grand. 

5. Vous me demandez si mon frere est gar9on, mais ne savez-vous 
pas qu'il a une femme et quatre enfants ? 

6. Dites h la femme-de-charabre, je tous prie, de porter tous les 
jours a ma soeur, a sept heures et demie sans faute, ses bottines, un petit 
pot d'eau bien chaude et une tasse de lait. 

7. Ma femme a besoin d'une bonne francaise pour ses enfants ainsi 
que d'une femme-de-chambre pour elle-meme. 

8. Le ministre fran9ais est venu avec sa femme et une autre dame, il 
y a deux ou trois jours, mais mon pere n'etait pas a la maison. 

9. Gar9on, voulez-vous aller chercher un fiacre pour conduire k 
Londres mon ami et sa femme ? 

10. Dites au cocher de conduire d'abord mon ami a la Ban que, et en- 
suite lui et sa femme chez le medecin allemand qui demeure tout pres de 
la poste. 

11. J'ai besoin d'un bon cocher anglais pour moi et d'une bonne 
femme-de-chambre fran9aise pour ma femme. 

12. N'avez-vous pas besoin aussi d'une autre bonne pour vos enfants V 
— leur bonne est tres-vieille. 

13. Voulez-vous mettre un autre pot-^-1'eau dans la chambre des en- 
fants ? — le pot-M'eau qu'ils ont est si petit. 

14. Est-ce que cette vieille femme est encore domestique ? 



No. LV. 

mais non, ils sont maintenant de retour ... 
hut nOj iJiey are now of return . . , 

1. Oil sont maintenant les enfants de mon frere ? 

2. lis sont tous dans leur chambre avec la vieille bonne anglaise. 

3. Mon grand-pere est-il de retour de Londres ? 

4. Non, pas encore ; il est de tres-bonne heure. 

5. Le papier ^ lettre n'est-il pas maintenant moins cher en France 
qu'il etait ? 

6. Savez-vous, mon gar9on, ou sont mes bottines et mes habits ? 
^. Est-ce qu'ils ne sont pas dans votre chambre a coucher ? 

8. II y a quatre ou cinq jours que ma soeur etait ^ Paris, ainsl que 
ses trois enfants et leur bonne, mais ils sont maintenant tous a Londres 
chez mon pere. 

9. Quand avez-vous achete ce joli petit livre fran9ai3 ? — Maintenant 
meme, mon cher ami, chez le libraire de la rue Neuve. 

10. Les enfants du ministre allemand sont-ils encore ^ Paris dans une 
famille fran9aise ? 

11. Non, ils sont maintenant chez une vieille soeur de leur grand-pere, 
qui demeure pres de Londres. 

12. Fait-ilplus beau maintenant que ce matin? 

13. II fait plus beau maintenant, mais il ne fait pas tres-beau. 

14. Yos enfants sont-ils maintenant de retour de leur promenade du 
matin ? 

15. Non, ils ne sont pas encore de retour. 



FRElSrCH. 71 

8. Has not his sister three children ? 

4. The youngest of her children is very small, but she has one who is 
very tall. 

5. You ask me if my brother is a bachelor, but do you not know that 
he has a wife and four children ? 

6. Tell the housemaid, if you please, to bring to my sister every day, 
at half-past seven, without fail, her boots, a small pitcher of very hot water, 
and a cup of milk. 

7. My wife wants a French nurse for her children as well as a lady's 
maid for herself. 

8. The French clergyman called with his wife and another lady, two 
or three days ago, but my father was not at home. 

9. Waiter, will you go and fetch a cab to take my friend and his wife 
to London ? 

10. Tell the cabman to take my friend first to the Bank, aud after- 
wards him and his wife to the German physician's who lives quite near 
the Post-office. 

11. I want a good English coachman for myself, and a good French 
lady's maid for my wife. 

12. Do you not also want another nurse for your children? — their 
nurse is very old. 

13. Will you put another pitcher into the children's room ? — the 
water pitcher which they have is so small. 

14. Is this old woman still a servant ? 



No. LY. 

1. Where are my brother's children now ? 

2. They are all in their room with the old Enghsh nurse. 
8. Has my grandfather returned from London ? 

4. No, not yet ; it is very early. 

5. Is not the note paper cheaper now in France than it was ? 

6. Do you know, my boy, where my boots and my clothes are ? 

7. Are they not in your bed-room ? 

8. Four or five days ago my sister was in Paris, as well as her three 
children and their nurse, but they are now all in London at my father's. 

9. When did you buy this pretty little French book ?— Just now, my 
dear fellow, at the bookseller's in New Street. 

10. Are the German clergyman's children still in Paris in a French 
family ? 

11. No ; they are now at an old sister's of their grandfather, who lives 
near London. 

12. Is it finer now than this morning? 

13. It is finer now, but it is not very fine. 

14. Have your children now returned from their morning walk ? 

15. No ; they have not returned yet. 



72 -THE MASTERY SERIES. 

No. LYL 

car nous les avons rencontres .... 
for we them have met .... 

1. N'avons-nous plus de papier buvard ? 

2. Non, nous n'en avons pas du tout. 

3. Avons-nous encore des plumes metalliques ? 

4. Oui, trois ou quatre, mais nous n'avons pas de papier ^ lettre 
fran9ais. 

5. Nous avons achete ce petit buvard dans le plus joli magasin de 
Paris, mais ou tout est tres-cher. 

6. Votre medecin est-il de retour de France ainsi que sa famille ? — 
Oui, car son petit gar9on est venu hier chez ma soeur avec sa bonne. 

T. II y a plus de trois jours que nous n'avons pas de feu dans notre 
chambre a coucher. 

8. Nous n'en avons pas non plus dans notre salon. 

9. Nous avons fait il y a deux jours un tres-bon dejeuner chez le 
beau-frere de notre ami, ce jeune allemand qui demeure pres du pont neuf. 

10. La vieille bonne anglaise n'a pas I'air d'etre de bonne humeur iors- 
que nos enfants sont avec la jeune bonne fran9aise. 

11. Nous avons ce fiacre pour nous deux, ma femme et moi, mais il 
nous en faut un autre maintenant pour les enfants et leur bonne. 

12. Yotre vieux medecin et son petit-fils sont de retour de France, car 
ma soeur et moi nous les avons rencontres tous deux pres du Pont de 
Londres. 

No. LYII. 

pas loin du chemin de fer. 
not far from, the road of iron. 

1. Eveillez-nous de tres-bonne heure, car nous avons besoin d'aller 
au chemin de fer avant le dejeuner. 

2. Est-ce que votre maison est pres du chemin de fer de Londres k 
Paris ? 

3. Combien faut-il que je donne pour un fiacre pour conduire les en- 
fants de ma soeur avec leur bonne au chemin de fer de Paris ^ Londres ? 

4. Est-ce que votre maison est pres du chemin de fer ? 

5. Non, elle en est tres-loin, bien plus loin encore que la maison de 
votre medecin. 

6. Les maisons ne sont pas loin Tune de I'autre. 

T. Est-ce que la maison de votre beau-pere n'est pas pres du grand 
chemin ? 

8. Elle est pres du grand chemin, mais tres-loin du chemin de fer. 

9. Si le chemin de fer est si loin de chez vous, il vous faut un fiacre 
pour y aller. 

10. Est-ce que vous voulez faire votre promenade aujourd'hui d'aussi 
bonne heure qu'hier, et aller aussi loin ? 

11. A la meme heure, oui, mais aller aussi loin, non. 

12. II ne faut pas aller plus loin que le pont du chemin de fer. 

13. N'y a-t-il pas un pont de fer tres-beau k Paris ? 

14. Oui, mais il y en a un encore plus beau ^ Londres, tout pres du 
grand chemin de fer de Londres ^ Paris. 



rREjS"CH. 73 



No. LYL 



1. Have we not any more blotting-paper ? 

2. No, we have none at all. 

3. Have we any more steel pens ? 

4. Yes, three or four, but we have no French note paper. 

5. We bought this little blotting-book at the prettiest shop in Paris, 
but where every thing is very dear. 

6. Has your physician returned from France, as well as his family ? — 
Yes ; for his little boy came yesterday to my sister's with his nurse. 

'7. We have not had any fire in our bed-room for more than three 
days. 

8. We have none either in our drawing-room. 

9. We had two days ago a very good breakfast at our friend's brother- 
in-law's, the young German who lives near the new bridge. 

10. The old English nurse does not look to be in very good humour 
when our children are with the young French nurse. 

11. We have this cab for us two, my wife and myself, but we w^ant 
another now for the children and their nurse. 

12. Your old physician and his grandson have now returned from 
France, for my sister and I met them both near London Bridge. 



No. LYII. 

1. Call us very early, for we want to go to the railway before break- 
fast. 

2. Is your house near the London and Paris railway ? 

3. How much must I give for a cab to take my sister's chilren and 
their nurse to the Paris and London railway ? 

4. Is your house near the railway ? 

5. No, it is very far from it, much farther still than your physician's 
house. 

6. It is but a little wslj from one house to the other. 

'7. Is not your father-in-law's house near the high road ? 

8. It is near the high road, but very far from the railway. 

9. If the railway is so far from your house, you want a cab to go there. 

10. Do you wish to take your walk to-day as early as yesterday, and to 
go as far ? 

11. Yes, at the same time ; but not to go as far. 

12. We must not go farther than the railway bridge. 

13. Is there not a very fine iron bridge in Paris ? 

14. Yes ; but there is one still finer in London, quite near the great 
London and Paris railway. 

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74 THE MASTERY SERIES. 



ELEVENTH SENTENCE. 



Although I think I have enough money to pay your account and mine^ give 
me yely if you can, a napoleon and some small change in franc-pieces 
and fifty -centime pieces. 

No. LYIII. 

Quoique je pense avoir assez d'argent . . . 
Although I think to-have enough of money . . . 

1. Avons-nous assez d'argent pour aujourd'hui et demain? 

2. Je pense qu'oui. 

3. Quoique je le pense aussi, dites h. votre frere d'aller en chercher h 
la Banque ce matin. 

4. Je pense qu'il ne fait pas aujourd'hui assez beau pour faire une 
promenade avant le dejeuner. 

5. Quoique je pense avoir assez avec un livre, dites au domestique de 
m'en apporter deux, un en fran9ais et I'autre en anglais. 

6. Est-ce que cette tasse est d'argent ? 
'7. Non, je ne le pense pas. 

8. Vous savez assez bien le frangais ; savez-vous aussi bien I'allemand ? 

9. Ce n'est pas assez d'un pot d'eau chaude pour moi et pour mon 
frere : je pense qu'il nous en faut deux. 

10. Savez-vous si cette jeune dame frangaise qui demeure avec ma 
soeur pense aller a Paris avec elle ? 

11. N'avez-vous pas assez de lait? 

12. J'ai bien assez de lait, mas je n'ai pas assez de cafe. 

13. Dites a la domestique de porter I'eau chaude a ma soeur dans le 
petit pot d'argent que j'ai achete hier. 

14. Je pense qu'il nous faut plus d'un fiacre pour aller au chemin de 
fer, car nous avons avec nous les enfants et leur bonne. 



No. LIX. 

pour payer votre compte et le mien . . . 
to pay your account and the mine . . . 

1. Que votre compte est grand ! — n'est-ce pas un compte de medecin? 

2. Le mien est tout petit : — c'est un compte de libraire. 

3. Ne faites le compte de mon beau-frere que pour demain. 

4. Mais faites le mien pour aujourd'hui sans faute. 

5. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas payer mon compte avec le votre ? 

6. Je n'ai pas assez d'argent pour payer les deux. 

7. J'ai besoin d'aller apres le second dejeuner ^ la Banque chercher 
de I'argent pour payer le compte du libraire. 

8. En avez-vous assez maintenant pour payer le votre et le mien ? 

9. Qui, je pense en avoir assez pour payer I'un et I'autre. 

10. Votre papier a lettre est plus beau que le mien, mais je pense 
qu'il n'est pas si bon. 

11. Mais votre buvard, quoique moins cher, est plus joli que le mien. 



FRENCH. ^5 



ELEVENTH SENTENCE. 



No. LYIII. 

1. Have we money enough for to-day and to-morrow ? 

2. I think we have. 

3. Although I think so too, tell your brother to go to the Bank this 
morning to fetch some. 

4. I think it is not fine enough to-day to take a walk before breakfast. 

5. Although I think I have enough with one book, tell the servant to 
bring me two : one French and the other English. 

6. This cup is not silver ; is it ? 
Y. No, I do not think it is. 

8. You know French pretty well ; do you know German as well ? 

9. A pitcher of hot water is not enough for me and my brother : I 
think we want two. 

10. Do you know if this young French lady who lives with my sister 
intends to go to Paris with her ? 

11. Have you not milk enough ? 

12. I have plenty of milk, but I have not coffee enough. 

13. Tell the housemaid to take the hot water to my sister in the little 
silver pitcher which I bought yesterday. 

14. I think we want more than one cab to go to the railway, as we 
have the children and their nurse with us. 



No. LIX. 

1. What a long bill yours is ! Is it not a doctor's account ? 

2. Mine is quite a httle one : it is a bookseller's bill. 

3. Do not make up my brother-in-law's account until to-morrow. 

4. But make up mine for to-day without fail. 

5. Why will you not pay my account with yours ? 

6. I have not money enough to pay both. 

Y. I want to go after lunch to the Bank to fetch some money to pay 
the bookseller's account 

8. Have you enough now to pay yours and mine ? 

9. Yes, I think I have enough to pay both. 

.10. Your note paper is finer than mine, but I think it is not so good. 
11. But your blotting-book, although not so dear, is prettier than mine. 



76 THE MASTEEY SEEIES. 

12. Dites, je vous prie, a la domestique de faire du feu dans le salon 
de ma soeur ainsi que dans le mien, et d'aller ensuite mettre cette lettre 
ct ce livre k la poste. 

13. Pourquoi, parce que mon ami est anglais, lui faire payer ce livre 
plus cher qu'il ne se vend ? 

14. Je pense que ce n'est pas bien de lui faire payer trois francs ce 
qui ne se vend que deux francs. 

Xo. LX. 

donnez-moi cependant, si vous pouvez, , . . 
give-me^ yet^ if you can^ . . . 

1. Combien payez-vouz par jour pour ce salon et cette chambre a 
coucher ? 

2. Je ne pense pas avoir assez d'argent pour payer votre compte et 
le mien : ainsi, donnez-moi quatre ou cinq francs de plus. 

3. Gar9on, ne pouvez-vous pas, ou ne voulez-vous pas, m'apporter 
mes bottines et mes habits avant sept heures et demie ? 

4. Est-ce que vous ne pouvez pas m'eveiller avant sept heures ? 

5. Yous pouvez desservir maintenant et aller mettre nos lettres a la 
poste. 

6. Ce papier est plus beau que le papier h lettre que vous avez achete 
h Londres, et cependant il est moins cher. 

Y. Je pense que vous pouvez en avoir k Londres d'aussi beau et aussi 
bon marche qu'a Paris. 

8. Donnez-en, je vous prie, a ma sceur, car elle n'en a pas dans son 
buvard. 

9. Cocher, pouvez-vous conduire maintenant mon pere h la Banque 
et le ramener chez lui avant cinq heures ? 

10. Mon frere est tres-enrhume, mais cependant eveillez-le demain 
matin h la meme heure, parce qu'il a besoin d'aller avant le dejeuner 
chez son beau-pere et chez le medecin. 

11. Donnez, je vous prie, mes bottines au gargon que le cordonnier 
frangais enverra ce soir. 

12. Pouvez-vous aller maintenant meme chez le libraire qui demeure 
pres du vieux pont, chercher un livre allemand pour ma soeur ? 



No. LXI. 

un napoleon et quelque petite monnaie 
>leGn and some small money . . . 



1. Avez-vous de la monnaie ?— je n'ai pas de petite monnaie. 

2. Donnez-moi, je vous prie, la monnaie d'un napoleon. 

3. Pourquoi avez-vous besoin de monnaie ? 

4. J'en ai besoin pour payer le cocher, qui n'a pas la monnaie d'un 
napoleon. 

5. Je ne pense pas avoir de monnaie : — non, je n'en ai pas. 

6. Pemandez la monnaie chez le libraire. 
*1. De combien ? — D'un napoleon. 



FEENCH. 77 

12. Tell the servant, if you please, to make a fire in my sister's sitting- 
room as well as in mine, and to go afterwards to post this letter and this 
book. 

13. Because my friend is an Englishman, why make him pay for this 
book more than it cost ? 

14. I think it is not right to charge him three francs for what cost 
only two francs. 

No. LX. 

1. How much do you give a day for this drawing-room and this bed- 
room ? 

2. I do not think I have money enough to settle your account and 
mine ; so give me four or five francs more, 

3. Waiter, can you not, or will you not, bring me my boots and my 
clothes before half-past seven ? 

4. Can you not call me before seven o'clock ? 

5. You may clear the table now, and go and post our letters. 

6. This paper is finer than the note paper which you bought in Lon- 
don, and yet it is not so dear. 

7. I think you may have some as fine and as cheap in London as in 
Paris. 

8. Give some, if you please, to my sister, as she has none in her 
blotting-book. 

9. Coachman, can you now take my father to the Bank, and home 
again before five o'clock ? 

10. My brother has a bad cold, but, however, call him to-morrow 
morning at the same hour, because he wants to go before breakfast to 
his father-in-law's and to the physician's. 

11. Give my boots, if you please, to the man whom the French boot- 
maker will send this evening. 

12. Can you go just now to the bookseller's who lives near the old 
bridge, to fetch a German book for my sister ? 



No. LXL 

1. Have you some change ? I have not any small change ? 

2. Give me, if you please, the change for a napoleon. 

3. Why do you want change ? 

4. I want some to pay the cabman, who has not change for a 
napoleon. 

5. I do not think I have any change : — no, I have none. 

6. Ask for the change at the bookseller's. 

7. For how much ? — For a napoleon. 



78 THE MASTEEY SEEIES. 

8. Avez-vous quelque joli livre fran9ais pour ma soeur? 

9. Ou est la Monnaie k Paris ? 

10. Youlez-vous aller k la Monnaie avec moi ? 

11. Avec plaisir, mais je pense qu'il nous faut un fiacre : la Monnaie 
est tres-loin. 

12. Avez-vous quelque ami h Paris qui demeure pres du Pont-Neuf ? 
— Oui ; pourquoi ? 

13. N'est-ce pas lui qui se nomme Napoleon ? 

14. Non, c'est le jeune fran9ais qui demeure pres de la Monnaie. 

15. Mon salon est plus grand que le votre; mais ma chambre h 
coucher est plus petite. 

16. Demandez en passant au libraire s'il a un livre fran9ais qui se 
TiommQ NapoUon-le-Pctit i 



No. LXII. 

en pieces d'un franc et de cinquante centimes. 
in pieces of a franc and of fifty centimes, 

1. Pouvez-vous, mon gar^on, me donner la monnaie de deux francs en 
pieces de cinquante centimes ? 

2. Vous ne me donnez pas mon compte ; il y a quatre pieces de 
cinquante centimes dans deux francs, et vous ne m'en donnez que trois. 

3. Combien ce livre se vend-il k Paris ? N'est-ce pas trois francs 
cinquante ? 

4. Oui ; mais h, Londres il se vend cinquante centimes de plus. 

5. Yous pouvez avoir k Paris un tres-bon dejeuner pour deux francs, 
et une tasse de cafe au lait pour cinquante centimes. 

6. Demandez, je vous prie, cinquante francs k mon frere pour payer 
le compte du cordonnier. 

1. Donnez un franc au vieux domestique, et dites-lui de m'apporter 
ce matin des plumes metalliques et du papier buvard. 

8. J'en ai achete il y a quatre ou cinq jours pour un franc cinquante 
centimes, et je n'en ai plus. 

9. La vieille dame anglaise qui demeure pres de la Monnaie enverra 
aujourd'hui cinquante francs k cette jeune femme fran9aise qui a sept 
enfants. 

10. Je n'ai pas tout k fait assez pour payer le cordonnier et le libraire ; 
il me faut cinq francs cinquante centimes de plus ; si vous avez de la 
monnaie, donnez-les moi. 

11. Donnez, je vous prie, un franc au gar9on : cinquante centimes pour 
moi et cinquante centimes pour mon ami. 

12. Dites a la domestique de m'apporter avant le second dejeuner, la 
monnaie d'un napoleon en pieces de cinq francs, d'un franc et de cin- 
quante centimes. 

13. N'est-ce pas en cinquante-quatre que Napoleon Trois est venu a 
Londres ? 

14. Non ; c'est en cinquante-cinq. 



FKEXCH. 79 

8. Have you some pretty French book for my sister ? 

9. Where is the Mint in Paris ? 

10. Will you go to the Mint with me ? 

11. With pleasure, but I think we must have a cab: the Mint is very 
far off. 

12. Have you a friend in Paris who lives near the Pont-Xeuf?— Fes; 
why? 

13. Is it not he whose name is Xapoleon ? 

14. Xo, it is the young Frenchman who lives near the Mint. 

15. My sitting-room is larger than yours, but my bed-room is smaller. 

16. Ask the bookseller, on our way, if he has a French book which is 
ciilled XajDoUon le Petit 



No. LXII. 

1. Can you, my boy, give me change for two francs in fifty-centime 
pieces ? 

2. You do not give me my due ; there are four fifty-centime pieces in 
two francs, and you give me only three. 

3. What is the price of this book in Paris ? Is it not three francs 
fifty centimes ? 

4. Yes ; but in London it costs fifty centimes more. 

5. You can have a very good breakfast in Paris for two francs, and a 
cup of coffee with milk for fifty centimes. 

6. Ask my brother, if you please, for fifty francs to pay the boot- 
maker's account. 

Y. Give one franc to the old servant, and tell him to bring me this 
morning some steel pens and some blotting-paper. 

8. I bought some for one franc and fifty centimes four or five days 
ago, but I have not any more. 

9. The old English lady who lives near the Mint will send to-day fifty 
francs to that young French woman who has seven children. 

10. I have not quite enough to pay the bootmaker and the bookseller ; 
I want five francs fifty centimes more ; if you have change, give me 
them. 

11. Give, if you please, one franc to the waiter : fifty centimes for me 
and fifty centimes for my friend. 

12. Tell the housemaid to bring me, before lunch, the change for a 
napoleon, in five-franc, two-franc, one-franc, and fifty-centime pieces. 

13. Was it not in fifty-four that Xapoleon the Third came to London ? 

14. No ; it was in fifty-five. 



80 THE MASTERY SERIES, 



TWELFTH SENTENCE. 



WJiilst I am making up this parcel to give to the porter of the hotel^ bring 
these books here and put them into the portmanteau ; my daughter-in- 
law's imderneath^ mine over hers^ aivd my husband^s over alL 

No. LXIII. 

Pendant que je fais ce paquet . . . 
Whilst thai I make this parcel . . . 

1. Qu*est-ce que vous faites ? — Je fais un paquet. 

2. Qu'est-ce qu'il y a dans ce paquet ? — Des habits. 
8. Ne faites-vous pas un paquet ? 

4. Non, je ne fais pas de paquet : je fais un compte. 

5. Pendant que je fais ce compte, faites le paquet. 

6. Pour qui est ce paquet ? — pour vous ou pour moi ? 

7. Ce paquet n'est pas pour nous ; il est pour la jeune dame anglaise 
qui a sa chambre pres de la notre. 

8. Pendant que je fais ce paquet, dites au gar9on d'aller chercher un 
fiacre. 

9. Le fiacre est-il venu ? — Oui ; c'est tres-bien. Maintenant faites- 
moi le plaisir d'y mettre ce petit paqnet, ce grand livre^ et ce buvard, et 
dites ensuite au cocher ou il faut nous conduire. 

' 10. Je fais mon dejeuner tous les jours avec une tasse de cafe, et ma 
scBur avec une tasse de lait. 

11. Pendant que mon frere est a Paris, je pense aller passer quatre ou 
cinq jours chez mon ami, le jeune ministre allemand. 

12. Est-ce que vous avez encore quelque paquet a faire ? 

13. Oui; pendant que je le fais, vous pouvez aller mettre mes letters 
a la poste, car il est pres de cinq heures. 

14. Ou faut-il mettre ce paquet ? — dans la chambre a coucher ou dans 
le salon ? 

15. Pendant que je fais ma promenade du matin, vous pouvez vous 
aussi faire une petite promenade avec les enfants et leur bonne. 

No. LXIV. 

pour donner au commissionnaire de I'hotel . . . 
far to-give to-the porter of the hotel ... 

1. Ou est le commissionnaire de I'hotel ? — II est dans Fautre chambre. 

2. Youlez-vous lui donner ce paquet ? 

8. Y a-t-il une poste pres de notre hotel ? 

4. II y en a une tout pres de I'hotel de mon ami. 

5. Combien faut il donner pour un fiacre pour aller a I'hotel de Lon- 
dres ? 

6. Dites au commissionnaire, je vous prie, d'apporter dans notre 
chambre a coucher le paquet et tous les habits qui sont au salon. 

'7. Nous avons besoin d'aller au Grand-Hotel, ce matin, sans faute. 
8. II n'y a pas k Londres d'hotel aussi grand que le Grand-Hotel de 
Paris. 



FEEXCH. 81 

TWELFTH SENTENCE. 
No. LXIIL 

1. What are you doing ? — I am making up a parcel. 

2. What is there in this parcel ? — Clothes. 

3. Are you not making up a parcel ? 

4. K'o ; I am not making up a parcel : I am making up an account. 

5. Whilst I am making up this account, make up the parcel. 

6. For whom is this parcel ? — for you or for me ? 

'Z. This parcel is not for us ; it is for the young Enghsh lady whose 
room is near ours. 

8. Whilst I am making up this parcel, tell the waiter to go and fetch 
a cab. 

9. Is the cab come ? — Yes. Yery well ; now do me the favour to 
put in it this little parcel, this large book, and this blotting-book, and tell 
the cabman afterwards where he must drive us. 

10. I make my breakfast every day off a cup of coffee, and my sister 
off a cup of milk. 

11. Whilst my brother is in Paris, I intend to go and spend four or 
five days at my friend's, the young German clergyman. 

12. Have you any more parcels to make up ? 

13. Yes. Whilst I am making it up, you may go and post my letters, 
for it is near five o'clock. 

14. Where shall I put this parcel? — in the bed-room or in the draw- 
ing-room ? 

15. Whilst I am taking my morning walk, you may also take a little 
walk with the children and their nurse. 



No. LXIY. 

1. Where is the porter of the hotel ? — He is in the other room, 

2. Will you, give him this parcel ? 

3. Is there any post-ofiice near our hotel ? 

4. There is one quite near my friend's hotel 

5. How much shall I give for a cab to go to the London hotel ? 

6. Tell the porter, if you please, to bring into our bed-room the parcel 
and all the clothes which are in the drawing-room. 

T. Y»^e want to go to the Grand-Hotel this morning without fail. 

8. There is not such a large hotel in London as the Grand-Hotel in 
Paris. 

4* 



82 THE lyASTERY SEEIES. 

9. Dites au cocher de nous conduire k I'Hotel de France, 

10. Le facteur n'avait-il pas quelque lettre pour moi ce soir ? 

11. Le facteur n'est pas encore venu. 

12. Que faut-il donner maintenant au commissionnaire de I'hotel ?— 
Donnez-lui le petit paquet que j'ai fait ce matin. 

13. Ilfaut lui donner aussi le paquet que je fais maintenant. 

14. Le ministre fran9ais et sa femme sont de retour de France : je les 
ai rencontres hier tout pres de I'Hotel- Anglais. 

15. Savez-vous comment se nomme Thotel oii est mon beau-frere? 

16. II se nomme le Petit-Hotel. 

17. L'hotel ou est votre beau-pere n'est pas grand, il n'est pas beau 
non plus. 



No. LXY. 

apportez ces livres ici . . . 
bring these books here . . . 

1. Est-ce ici qu'il faut mettre ce paquet? 

2. Non ; portez-le a ma soeur ainsi que les livres qui sont ici. 
8. Le paquet est pour elle, et ces livres aussi. 

4. Les enfants de ma sceur sont-ils ici ? — Non ; ils sont au salon. 

5. Portez ce petit paquet a mon ami, et dites-lui de me faire le plaisir 
de passer ici, s'il pent, avant son second dejeuner. 

6. Est-ce que votre beau-frere est ici ? 

'7. Oui ; il est ici pour quatre ou cinq jours avec sa femme, ses trois 
enfants, leur vieille bonne anglaise, et leur jeune bonne fran9aise. 

8. Yotre pere a-t-il ici le meme domestique qu'il avait k Londres ? — 
Non ; il en a un autre qui est venu avec lui de Paris. 

9. Apportez a ma soeur une tasse de lait, et de I'eau chaude dans son 
petit pot d'argent. 

10. Pourquoi ne nous apportez-vous pas notre eau chaude, nos bot- 
tines, et nos habits tous les matins avant sept heures ? 

11. Nos habits sont ici, dites-vous; c'est tres-bien, mais les avez-vous 
brosses ? 

12. Yous dites que tout se vend bon marche ici: je ne le pense pas. 
18. Je pense que tout est ici tres-cher, plus cher meme qu'a Paris et 

qu'a Londres. 

14. II y a dans la rue de la Banque un libraire fran9ais, et dans la rue 
Neuve un libraire anglais* 

15. II y a quatre ou cinq jours que mon frere a achete un livre fran- 
9ais chez notre libraire, demandez lui s'il ne I'enverra pas ce soir ou 
demain. 

No. LXYL 

et mettez-les dans cette grande malle . . . 
and put them into this large portmanteau . . . 

1. Gar9on, savez-vous ou est ma grande malle? 

2. Elle n'est pas ici : il n'y a ici que ma petite malle. 
8. Cette malle n'est pas a moi. 

4. Ma malle est neuve, et cette malle est vieille. 



FRENCH. 83 

9. Tell the coachman to take us to the Hotel de France. 

10. Had not the postman any letter for me to night ? 

11. The postman has not come yet. 

12. What am I to give now to the porter of the hotel ? — Give him the 
little parcel I made up this morning. 

13. You must give him also the parcel which I am making up now. 

14. The French clergyman and his wife have returned from France. 
I met them yesterday quite near the Hotel- Anglais. 

15. Do you know what is the name of the hotel where my brother-in- 
law is ? 

16. It is called the Petit-Hotel 

17. The hotel where your father in4aw is is not large, it is not fine 
either. 



Xo. Lxy. 

1. Am I to put this parcel here ? 

2. No ; take it to my sister, as well as the books which are here. 
8. The parcel is for her, and these bocks also. 

4. Are my sister's children here ? — 'No ; they are in the drawing-room. 

5. Take the small parcel to my friend, and tell him to do me the 
favour to call here, if he can, before his lunch* 

6. Is your brother-in-law here ? 

7. Yes ; he is here for four or five days, with his wife, his three 
children, their old English nurse, and their young French nurse. 

8. Has your father the same servant here he had in London ? — "No ; 
he has another, who came with him from Paris ? 

9. Bring to my sister a cup of milk and some hot water in her little 
silver jug. 

10. Why do you not bring us our hot water, our boots, and our clothes 
every morning before seven ? 

11. Our clothes are here, you say ; very well, but did you brush them? 

12. You say that every thing is sold cheap here ; I do not think so. 

13. I think that every thmg is very dear here ; dearer even than in 
Paris and in London. 

14. There is a French bookseller in Bank Street, and an English one 
in New Street. 

15. Four or five days ago my brother bought a French book at our 
bookseller's ; ask him if he will not send it this evening or to-morrow. 

No. LXYL 

1. Waiter, do you know where my large portmanteau is ? 

2. It is not here : there is only my small portmanteau here. 

3. This portmanteau is not mine. 

4. My portmanteau is new, and this portmanteau is old. 



84 THE MASTERY SEEIES. 

5. Commissionnaire, demandez ou est ma maile. 

6. Yotre grande malle est ici. 

7. Tres-bien : mettez-la dans ma chambre avec la petite, 

8. A qui est la grande malle ? 

9. La grande malle est a moi, la petite est a ma soeur. 

10. Une dame n'a pas besoin d'une grande malle. 

11. Je ne pense pas ainsi. Je pense qu'une dame a besoin d'une tres- 
grande malle; plus grande merae que la votre, qui est si grande. 

12. Poiirquoi mettez-vous mes livres dans cette petite malle ? 

13. Mettez-les, je vous prie, dans la grande et non dans la petite. 

14. La petite malle est pour mes habits. 

15. J'ai moins d'habits que de livres: c'est pourquoi la petite malle est 
assez grande pour les habits. 

16. Apportez-moi le buvard de mon frere, car je n'ai pas le mien: il 
est encore dans ma malle. 

17. Ma soeur n'est pas tres-grande, et elle est cependant la plus grande 
de toute la famille. 



No. LXYIL 

ceux de ma belle-fille dessous ... 

those of my daughter -iii-'i aw underneath , . „ 

1. Ou est ma belle-fille ? 

2. Yotre belle-fille n'est-elle pas ici ? 

3. Est-ce que ma belle-fille n'est pas h la maison ? 

4. Sa belle-fille est-elle de retour ? 

5. Non ; elle est encore h, Paris avec sa belle-soeur. 

6. Ou demeure votre belle-fille k Londres ? 

7. Elle demeure dans cette belle maison neuve qui est tout pres de 
la Banque. 

8. Avez-vous quelque lettre de votre belle-fille aujourd'hui ? 

9. Le facteur n'est pas encore venu ; mais si je n'en ai pas de ma 
belle-fille, je pense en avoir une de ma belle-soeur. 

10. S'il fait beau demain matin, eveillez ma fille de bonne heure, mais 
faites auparavant un bon feu dans son petit salon, parce qu'elle n'est pas 
tres-bien. 

11. Yotre belle-fille n'a-t-elle pas deux enfants ? 

12. Oui; un gargon et une fille. 

13. Le gar9on est tres-grand, mais la fille est tres-petite. 

14. Ou sont maintenant les enfants de votre fille ? 

15. lis sont a Paris chez leur grand-pere, mais ceux de mon fils sont 
h Londres chez ma soeur. 

16. Tous nos habits sont dans cette grande malle : je pense que ceux 
de mon frere sont dessous. 

17. Cette jeune dame anglaise qui demeure dans la meme maison que 
votre belle-soeur est aussi bonne que riche et belle. 

18. Si vous sortez ce matin, demandez a ma belle fille quand elle 
enverra son petit garQon passer deux ou trois jours avec les enfants de 
ma fille. 



FKENCH. 85 

5. Porter, ask where my portmanteau is. 

6. Your large portmanteau is here. 

7. Very well ; put it into my bed-room with the small one. 

8. Whose is the large portmanteau ? 

9. The large portmanteau is mine ; the small box is my sister's. 

10. A lady does not want a large box. 

11. I do not think so : I think that a lady wants a very large box, 
larger even than yours, which is so large. 

12. Why do you put my books into this small trunk ? 

13. Put them, if you please, into the large one, and not into the small 
one. 

14. The small portmanteau is for my clothes. 

15. I have fewer clothes than books : that is why the small portman- 
teau is large enough for the clothes. 

16. Bring me my brother's blotting-book, as I have not mine : it is still 
in my portmanteau. 

17. My sister is not very tall, but she is, however, the tallest in all the 
family. 



No. LXYIL 

1. Where is my daughter-in-law ? 

2. Is not your daughter-in-law here ? 

3. My daughter-in-law is at home ; is she not ? 

4. Has her daughter-in-law returned ? 

5. No ; she is still in Paris with her sister-in-law. 

6. Where does your daughter-in-law reside in London ? 

7. She lives in that fine new house which is quite near the Bank. 

8. Have you not any letter from your daughter-in-law to-day ? 

9. The postman has not come yet ; but if I have not one from my 
daughter-in-law, I think I shall have one from my sister-in-law. 

10. If it is fine to-morrow morning, call my daughter early, but first 
make a good fire in her little drawing-room, because she is not very well. 

11. Has not your daughter-in-law two children? 

12. Yes ; a boy and a girl. 

13. The boy is very tall, but the girl is very short. 

14. Where are your daughter's children now ? 

15. They are in Paris at their grandfather's ; but my son's are in 
London, at my sister's. 

16. All our clothes are in this large portmanteau : I think my brother's 
are underneath. 

17. This young English lady who lives in the same house as your 
sister-in-law is as good as she is rich and handsome. 

18. If you go out this morning, ask my daughter-in-law when she will 
send her little boy to spend. two or three days with ray daughter's 
children. 



86 THE MASTERY SERIES. 



No. LXVIII. 



les miens sur les siens . . , 
the mme upon the his . , , 

1. Les livres de mon frere sont dans la grande malle, mais oil sont 
les miens ? 

2. Les miens ne sont pas ici. 

3. Les siens non plus. 

4. Ceux de ma fille sont-ils sur les miens ? 

5. Non, les siens sont en-dessous. 

6. Pourquoi n'apportez-vous pas tous les jours les habits de mon 
beau-frere avec les miens ? 

7. Les siens ne sont pas encore brosses. 

8. Savez-vous si ses habits sont avec les miens dans la grande malle ? 

9. Quoique je pense avoir besoin de mes livres avant ma fille, mettez- 
les en-dessous, et les siens sur les miens. 

10. Pourquoi ne mettez-vous pas ce grand paquet sur la grande malle? 

11. A qui sont ces enfants — a votre belle-soeur ? — Non, ce sont les 
miens : les siens ne sont pas ici. 

12. Vous avez maintenant tous vos livres, mais la malle ou sont les 
miens et ceux de mon frere est encore au chemin de fer. 

13. Yous pensiez que notre medecin etait encore a Paris avec sa soeur 
et son beau-frere, mais ils sont tous trois ici, car ma belle-fiUe les a 
rencontres hier sur le pont de fer. 

14. Faut-il mettre ce grand paquet dans le fiacre ? — Non, mettez-le sur 
le fiacre avec ma grande malle. 



No. LXIX. 

et ceux de mon mari en-dessus. 
and those of my husband over all. 

1. Oil est mon mari? 

2. Yotre mari n'est-il pas de retour ? 

3. Est-ce que votre mari est encore h. Paris ? 

4. Demandez a mon mari s'il a la monnaie d'un napoleon pour payer 
ces bottines, car le cordonnier n'a pas de monnaie. 

6. Faut-il passer par ici pour aller a la Grande-Poste ? 

6. Non : je pense qu'il faut passer par la rue Neuve. 

Y. Le mari de cette dame, quoique fran9ais, a Pair tout k fait anglais. 

8. Mettez tous ces livres dans la grande malle qui est ici, les miens 
en-dessous, et ceux de mon mari, de monfils et de ma fille en-dessus. 

9. Mon mari ne pense pas avoir assez d'argent pour payer le compte 
de I'hotel. 

10. Voulez-vous aller en chercher h la Ban que ? mon mari est tres- 
enrhume aujourd'hui, et ne pent pas y aller. 

11. Tout bon qu'est mon frere, il n'est pas si bon que mon mari. 

12. Yotre fils fait, je pense, un bon mari; mais je pense aussi que 
votre belle-fille fait une tres-bonne femme : elle a I'air si bon. 

13. L'air est tres-bon ce matin, et je pense aller faire une petite 
promenade apres le dejeuner avec mon mari et mes enfants. 



FEENCH. 87 



No. LXYIIL 

1. My brother's books are in the large portmanteau, but where are 
mine ? 

2. Mine are not here. 
8. Nor his either. 

4. Are my daughter's over mine ? 

5. No ; hers are underneath. 

6. Why do you not bring every day my brother-in-law's clothes with 
mine ? 

'7. His are not brushed yet. 

8. Do you know if his clothes are with mine in the large box ? 

9. Although I think I shall want my books before my daughter, put 
them underneath, and hers upon mine. 

10. Why do you not put this large parcel upon the large box ? 

11. Whose are these children ? — your sister-in-law's ? — No ; they are 
mine : hers are not here. 

12. You have now all your books, but the box where my brother's and 
mine are is still at the railway. 

13. You thought that our doctor was still in Paris with his sister and 
brother-in-law, but they are all three here, for my daughter-in-law met 
them yesterday on the iron bridge. 

14. Shall I put this large parcel into the cab ? — No ; put it upon the 
cab, with my large portmanteau. 



No. LXIX. 

1. Where is my husband ? 

2. Has not your husband returned ? 

3. Your husband is not still in Paris — is he ? 

4. Ask my husband if he has the change for a napoleon to pay for 
these boots, as the bootmaker has not change. 

5. Must I go this way to go to the Chief Post-office ? 

6. No ; I think you must go through New Street. 

'7. This lady's husband, although a Frenchman, looks quite like an 
Englishman 

8. Put all these books in the large box which is here, mine under- 
neath, and my husband's, my son's, and my daughter's above. 

9. My husband does not think he has money enough to pay the hotel 
bill. 

10. Will you go and fetch some from the Bank ? My husband has a 
bad cold to-day, and cannot go there. 

11. Good as my brother is, he is not so good as my husband. 

12. -Your son makes, I think, a good husband, but I think also that 
your daughter-in-law makes a very good wife : she looks so good ! 

13. The air is very pleasant this morning, and I think I shall go to 
take a little walk after breakfast with my husband and my children. 



88 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

14. Que fait le mari de cette femme ? — II est cocher. — Et sa femme ? 
— Elle est domestique. 

15. Dites a votre mari de passer k cinq heures, ou plus tot meme, s'il 
pout. 

16. Est-ce pour vous que votre mari a achete ce joli petit pot 
d'argent ? 

17. Portez dans notre chambre a coucher tous les habits de mon 
mari, agres les avoir Men brosses. 

18. Eveillez mon mari de bonne heure, parce qu'il a besoin d'aller au 
Grand-Hotel et au chemin de fer avant le dejeuner. 



THIRTEENTH SENTENCE. 

Perhaps you could tell me what would he the price of au umbrella like that 
rcliich Host in the bazaar last week^ a?id of a parasol like thai of 
which your mother made you a present. 

No. LXX. 

Peut-etre pourriez-vous me dire . . » 
Perhaps could you me tell ... 

1. Pourriez-vous me le dire ? 

2. Ne pourriez-vous pas le dire a mon frere ? 

3. Yous pourriez le donner au facteur. 

4. Yous ne pourriez pas me le dire. 

5. Pourriez-vous le leur dire ? 

6. Yous pourriez le faire avec moi. 

'7. Peut-6tre ne pourriez-vous pas le faire sans moi. 

8. Ne pourriez-vous pas me faire le plaisir de passer ce matin chez 
ma belle-soeur ? 

9. Pourriez-vous me donner la monnaie de cinq francs en petites 
pieces? 

10. Peut-etre avez-vous besoin du livre allemand que j'ai dans ma 
chambre ? 

11. Oui: pourriez-vous vous en passer pour aujourd'hui? 

12. Yous pourriez pendant le dejeuner porter ccs bottines chez le cor- 
donnier de la rue Neuve pour les faire elargir. 

13. Gar^on, pourriez-vous m'apporter I'eau chaude plus tot demain 
matin ? 

14. Yous pourriez peut-etre me dire, mon ami, ou est la rue du Pont- 
Neuf? 

15. Ne pourriez-vous pas apporter, avant sept heures, mes habits et 
ceux de mon frere ? 

16. Pourriez-vous me dire si le facteur est venu ? 

17. Peut-etre mon ami est-il venu pendant le dejeuner, et le domestique 
n'est-il pas venu nous le dire. 

18. Yous pourriez peut-etre nous dire ou demeure le ministre fran9ais. 



FRENCH. 8^ 

14. What is this woman's husband ? — He is a coachman. — And his 
wife ? — She is a servant. 

15. Tell your husband to call at five o'clock ; or even sooner if he can. 

16. Is it for you that your husband bought this nice little silver jug ? 

17. Bring into our bed-room all my husband's" clothes, after you have 
brushed them well. 

18. Call my husband early, because he wants to go to the Grand-Hotel, 
and to the railway before breakfast. 



THIRTEEXTH SENTENCE. 
No. LXX. 

1. Could you tell it to me ? 

2. Could you not tell it to my brother ? 

3. You could give it to the postman. 

4. You could not tell it to me. 

5. Could you tell it to them ? 

6. You could do it with me. 

7. Perhaps you could not do it without me. 

8. Could you not do me the favour to call this morning on my sister- 
in-law ? 

9. Could you give me change for five francs in small coins ? 

10. Perhaps you want the German book which I have in my bed- 
room? 

11. Yes ; could you spare it to-day ? 

12. You could, when we are at breakfast, take these boots to the 
bootmaker in the New Street, to have them stretched. 

13. Waiter, could you bring me the hot water sooner to-morrow 
morning ? 

14. You could perhaps tell me, my good man, where New Bridge 
Street is ? 

15. Could you not bring before seven o'clock my clothes and my 
brother's ? 

16. Could you tell me if the postman has come ? 

17. Perhaps my friend came when we were at breakfast, and the 
servant did not come to tell us. 

18. You could perhaps tell us where the French clergyman lives. 



90 THE MASTEKY SERIES. 



No. LXXI. 



quel serait le prix d'un parapluie . . , 
what woidd-he the price of an umbrella . , . 

1. 9^el est le prix de ce parapluie ? 

2. A qui est ce parapluie ? 

3. Pour qui est ce parapluie ? 

4. Qui a mon parapluie ? 

5. Savez-vous ou est mon parapluie ? 

6. Pourriez-vous me dire ou est mon parapluie ? 

7. Est-ce votre parapluie ? 

8. Non, ce parapluie est tres-vieux, et le mien est tout neuf : il y a 
tout au plus quatre ou cinq jours que je I'ai. 

9. Youlez-vous me faire le plaisir d'aller me chercher mon parapluie ? 

10. Qu'est-ce que vous dites ? — Que vous ne pouvez pas faire un pas 
sans votre parapluie ? 

11. Quel grand parapluie ! — C'est le parapluie de mon pere. 

12. Quel joli petit parapluie ! — C'est le parapluie de ma soeur. 

13. Quel est le prix de ce livre ? — Cinq francs cinquante. 

14. Quel est le domestique qui est venu chercher nos lettres pour les 
mettre h la poste ?■ — Le vieux domestique allemand. 

15. Le plus jeune des enfants de notre medecin a eu un second prix 
de fran9ais. 

16. Notre ami serait venu s'il etait de retour de France. 

17. Quel est le prix de ce petit pot d'argent ? — Deux livres en monnaie 
anglaise, ce qui fait cinquante francs en monnaie frangaise. 

18. Donnez au commissionnaire de Fhotel ma grande malle, le petit 
paquet que j'ai fait ce matin, le gros paquet qui est ici, et mon parapluie. 

19. II pleut toujours quand je ne prends pas mon parapluie. 



No. LXXIL 

semblable ^ celui que j'ai perdu ... 

like to that which I have lost , . . 

1. Qu'est-ce que vous avez perdu ? 

2. N'avez-vous pas perdu un napoleon ? 
8. Est-ce qu'il a perdu une livre ? 

4. A-t-elle perdu son parapluie ? 

6. Nous avons perdu le notre. 

6. Je pense avoir perdu un de mes livres frangais en chemin de fer. 

'7. Lequel avez-vous perdu ? 

8. Celui que j'ai achete I'autre jour h Paris. 

9. J'en ai un tout-^-fait semblable : le voulez-vous ? 

10. Ou sont mes deux livres allemands ? — il n'y en a qu'un icL 

11. Est-ce que I'autre serait perdu ? 

12. Yous pouvez dire que vous avez un grand parapluie : est-il grand I 
-Est-ce que celui que vous avez perdu etait aussi grand ? 

13. Non, il etait semblable au v6tre» 



FEENCH. 91 



Ko. LXXI. 



1. What is the price of this umbrella ? 

2. Whose umbrella is this V 

3. For whom is this umbrella ? — 

4. Who has my umbrella ? 

5. Do you know where my umbrella is ? 

6. Could you tell me where my umbrella is ? 

7. Is this your umbrella ? 

8. No, this umbrella is very old, and mine is quite new : it is four or 
five days at most since I had it. 

9. Will you do me the favour to go and fetch my umbrella ? 

10. What do you say ? That you cannot walk one step without your 
umbrella ? 

11. What a large umbrella ! — It is my father's. 

12. What a nice little umbrella ! — It is my sister's. 

13. What is the price of this book ? — Five francs fifty centimes. 

14. Who is the man-servant who came Jio fetch our letters to post 
them ? — The old German man-servant. 

15. The youngest of our doctor's children has had a second French 
prize. 

16. Our friend would have come if he had returned from France. 

lY. What is the price of this little silver pitcher ? — Two pounds in 
English money — which is fifty francs in French money. 

18. Give the porter of the hotel my large portmanteau, the small 
parcel which I made up this morning, the large parcel which is here, and 
my umbrella. 

19. It always rains when I do not take my umbrella. 



No. LXXII. 

1. What have you lost ? 

2. Have you not lost a napoleon ? 

3. He has not lost a pound ; has he ? 

4. Has she lost her umbrella ? 

5. We have lost ours. 

6. I think I have lost one of my French books in the train. 
'7. Which have you lost ? 

8. The one which I bought the other day in Paris. 

9. I have one just like it : do you wish to have it ? 

19. Where are my two German books? — There is only one here. 

11. Can the other be lost ? 

12. You may say that you have a large umbrella. How large it is ! 
The one which you have lost was not so large : was it ? 

13. No, it was like yours. 



92 THE MASTEEY SEEIES. 

14. J'ai acbete a Paris pour sept francs cinquante un buvard tout4' 
fait semblable a celui de votre soeur. 

15. Pourriez-vous me dire quel serait le prix d'un petit parapluie 
semblable a celui que vous avez perdu ? 

16. J'ai perdu pres d'une demi-heure a chercher mon parapluie. 

lY. Ce fiacre n'est-il pas semblable a celui qu'avait mon ami pour aller 
au Grand-Hotel ? 

18. Pourriez-vous vous passer de votre buvard pendant unc demi- 
heure? — Celui que j'ai achete au magasin de la rue Neuve n'est pas 
encore venu. 



No. LXXIII. 

au Bazar, la semaine derniere ... 
at-the Bazaar^ the week last ... 

1. Le petit Bazar est-il pres d'ici ? — Oui, tout pres. 

2. Le grand Bazar est plus loin, n'est-ce pas ? — II est plus loin, mais 
pas tres-loin. 

8. Auquel voulez-vous aller ? — A tons les deux. 

4. Lequel des deux est le plus beau ? — Le grand Bazar, je pense. 

5. Par ou faut-il passer pour aller au grand Bazar ? 

6. Ou avez-vous achete ce joli petit pot ? — Je I'ai achete au Bazar 
francais la semaine derniere. 

Y. Et ou est ce Bazar ? — Tout pres du pont de fer, la derniere maison 
de la rue Neuve. 

8. Faut-il un fiacre pour aller au Bazar ou vous avez achete votre 
buvard et le parapluie de votre belle-soeur ? — Pas du tout, il est k deux 
pas d'ici. 

9. Le fils et la belle-fille de votre medecin sont de retour de Prance, 
car nous les avons rencontres au Bazar la semaine derniere. 

10. Savez-vous comment se nomme ce grand Bazar pres de la Banque 
de France ? 

11. II se nomme le Bazar Napoleon. 

12. Yous dites que vous avez perdu votre parapluie au Bazar. 

13. Est-ce dans le Bazar meme que vous I'avez perdu? — Je pense 
qu'oui. 

14. Moi, je n'ai pas perdu de parapluie au Bazar, mais j'y ai perdu dix 
francs il y a quelques jours. 

15. Quand les avez-vous perdus; cette semaine? — Non, la semaine 
niere. 

16. Pourquoi votre ami, le jeune ministre allemand, n'est-il pas venu 
avec vous ? — Parce qu'il avait besoin d'aller au Bazar de Paris avec sa 
femme et ses enfants. 

No. LXXIY. 

et d'une ombrelle comme celle ... 
and of a parasol like that . . . 



1. Cette ombrelle est-elle a vous ? 

2. Non : je pense que c'est celle de ma belle-fille. 

3. N'est-elle pas comme la votre ? 



FEEKCH. 93 

14. I bought in Paris for seven francs fifty centimes a blotting-book 
quite like your sister's. 

15. Could you tell me what would be the price of a small umbrella 
like that which you lost ? 

16. I have lost almost half an hour in looking for my umbrella. 

11. Is not this cab like the one which my friend had to go to the 
Grand-Hotel ? 

18. Could you spare your blotting-book for half an hour ? That which 
I bought in the shop in New Street has not come yet. 



No. LXXIII. 

1. Is the little Bazaar near here ? — Yes, quite near. 

2. The great Bazaar is farther, is it not ? — It is farther, but not very 
far. 

3. To which will you go ?— To both. 

4. Which is the finer of the two ? — The great Bazaar, I think. 

5. Which way am I to go to get to the great Bazaar? 

6. Where did you buy this pretty little pitcher ? — I bought it at the 
French Bazaar, last week. 

7. Y/here is this Bazaar ? — Close by the iron bridge, in the last house 
in New Street. 

8. Shall I want a cab to go to the Bazaar where you bought your 
blotting-book, and your sister-in-law's umbrella ? — Not at all ; it is not 
far off. 

9. Your doctor's son and daughter-in-law are returned from France, 
for we met them in the Bazaar last week. 

10. Do you know what is the name of this large Bazaar that is near 
the Bank of France ? 

11. It is named the Bazaar Napoleon. 

12. You say you have lost your umbrella in the Bazaar. 

13. Was it in the Bazaar itself that you lost it ? — I think so. 

14. As for me, I have not lost any umbrella in the Bazaar, but I lost 
a half napoleon there some days ago. 

15. When did you lose it ; this week ? — No, last week. 

16. Why did not your friend, the young German niinister (clergyman), 
come with you ? — Because he wanted to go to the Paris Bazaar with his 
wife and children. 



No. LXXIY. 



1. Is this parasol yours ? 

2. No ; I think it is my daughter-m-law's. 

3. Is it not like yours ? 



94 THE MASTEET SERIES, 

4. Pas tout-a-fait : mon ombrelle est plus grande. 

5. Quel joli petit parapluie vous avez ! 

6. Est-elle aussi chere que celle de ma belle-soeur ? 

1. Quel est le prix de celle de votre belle-soeur ? — Une livre peut-etre. 

8. Mon ombrelle, toute jolie qu'elle est, n'est pas si chere. 

9. Vous avez besoin de bottines neuves ; les votres sont bien vieilles. 

10. Oui, je pense que j'en ai besoin. 

11. Demandez, je vous prie, au cocher, si le livre de ma fiUe n'est pas 
dans son fiacre. 

12. II y avait un buvard dans le fiacre, mais pas de livre. 

13. II faut que je vous prie de me faire un petit plaisir : ce serait d'aller 
aujourd'huia Londres, avant le second dejeuner, chercher pour ma petite- 
fiUe des plumes semblables a celles de votre plus jeune soeur. 

14. J'ai bien besoin d'un parapluie neuf et d'une ombrelle neuve : les 
miens sont vieux tons les deux. 

15. A qui est Tombrelle qui est dans le salon, k vous ou a votre soeur ? — 
C'e'st celle de ma soeur. 

16. Je ne pense pas avoir assez d'argent pour payer le buvard et 
I'ombrelle : si vous avez un napoleon sur vous, donnez-le moi, je vous prie. 

17. Qu'a-t-elle, cette jeune dame ? elle a I'air d'etre de bien mauvaise 
humeur ? — C'est parce qu'elle a perdu son ombrelle. 

18. N'est-ce pas pres du chemin de fer que les enfants ont perdu leur 
ombrelle ? — Non ; c'est pres du petit pont. 



No. LXXY. 

dont votre mere vous a fait cadeau. 

of -which your mother to you has made present, 

1. Votre mere ne vous a-t-elle pas fait cadeau d'un buvard ? 

2. Non ; elle m'a fait cadeau d'un petit pot d'argent. 

3. C'est un tres-joli cadeau. 

4. Pourquoi vous a-t-elle fait cadeau d'un parapluie, et non d'une 
ombrelle ? 

5. J'ai une ombrelle toute neuve dont ma belle-mere m'a fait cadeau 
la semaine derniere, mais mon parapluie etait vieux et mauvais. 

6. Ma mere a besoin de petite monnaie ; pourriez-vous lui en donner ? 
— Je pense qu'oui. 

7. Avez-vous cinq pieces d'un franc, et quatre pieces de cinquante 
centimes ? c'est toute la petite monnaie dont j'ai besoin. 

8. Les livres de ma mere sont-ils sur les miens, ou en-dessous, dans 
la grande malle ? 

9. Ceux de votre mere sont au-dessus des votres. 

10. Apportez-moi, je vous prie, a sept heures et demie, ou meme plus 
tot si vous pouvez, un grand pot d'eau chaude, une petite tasse de cafe 
au lait, mes habits bien brosses et mes bottines : c'est tout ce dont j'ai 
besoin ce matin. 

11. Cette jeune anglaise est-elle la dame dont la famille demeure h 
Paris pres du Grand-Hotel ? — Oui, c'est elle-meme. 

12. Est-ce k elle que votre mere a fait cadeau de ce joli buvard qu'elle 
a achete au bazar frangais la semaine derniere ? — Non ; c'est k sa soeur. 



FRENCH. 95 

4. Not quite : my parasol is larger. 

5. What a nice little umbrella you have ! 

6. Is it as dear as my sister-in-law's ? 

'7. What is the price of your sister-in-law's ?— One pound perhaps. 

8. My parasol, pretty as it is, is not as dear. 

9. You want some new boots : yours are quite old. 

10. Yes ; I think I want some. 

11. Ask the cabman, if you please, if my daughter's book is not in 
his cab. 

12. There was a blotting-book in the cab, but no book. 

13. I must beg of you a little favour; it is to go to-day to London, 
before lunch, to fetch for my grand-daughter some pens like your younger 
sister's. 

14. I want very much a new umbrella and a new parasol : mine are 
both old. 

15. Whose parasol is that which is in the drawing-room? yours or 
your sister's ? — It is my sister's. 

16. I do not think I have money enough to pay for the blotting-book 
and the parasol : if you have a napoleon about you, give it to me, if you 
please. 

lY. What is the matter with this young lady? she looks very cross. — 
It is because she has lost her parasol. 

18. Did not the children lose their parasol near the railway ? — No ; 
near the little bridge. 



No. LXXY. 

1. Has not your mother made you a present of a blotting-book ? 

2. No ; she has given me as a present a little silver pitcher. 

3. It is a very nice present. 

4. Why did she give you as a present an umbrella, and not a parasol ? 

5. I have a parasol quite new which my mother-in-law made me a 
present of last week, but my umbrella was old and bad. 

6. My mother wants small change; could you give her some?— I 
think I can. 

Y. Have you five franc pieces, and four fifty-centime pieces ? That 
is all the small change I want. 

8. Are my mother's books upon mine, or underneath, in the large 
portmanteau ? 

9. Your mother's are upon yours. 

10. Bring me, if you please, at half-past seven, or even sooner if you 
can, a large pitcher of hot water, a small cup of coffee with milk, my 
clothes well brushed, and my boots : that is all I went this morning. 

11. Is that the young English ladv whose family lives in Paris near 
the Grand Hotel ?— Yes ; it is. 

12. Was it to her that your mother made a present of this pretty 
blotting-book which she bought in the French bazaar last week ? — No ; 
it was to her sister ? 



96 THE MASTEET SEEIES. 

13. Savez-vous quel est le prix de ce beau livre allemand que votre 
mere a achete chez le libraire de la rue Neuve pour en faire cadeau a la 
femrae de son medecin ? 

14. •Le vieux doraestique anglais de votre mere avait-il Fair aujourd'hui 
d'etre d'aussi mauvaise humeur qu'hier lorsqu'il est venu desservir ? — Non, 
il avait Fair d'etre de bonne humeur. 

15. Comment se nomme ce jeune anglais si riche dont la mere demeure 
h Paris, pres de la Monnaie ? — II se nomme Bank. 

16. Youlez-vous passer avec moi demain, ou tout autre jour de cette 
semaine, chez ce jeune medecin allemand dont la mere demeure h. 
Londres, tout pres de cbez nous ? — Oui, mon cher ami, avec grand plaisir. 



FOURTEENTH SENTENCE. 

However early you may he^ I am sure you are not so much so as this poor 
man^ who^ whatever the season may be^ and whatever iveather it isy al- 
zvays rises before the sun. 

No. LXXVI. 

Quelque matineux que tous soyez . . . 
However early that you may-be , . . 

1. Est-il matineux ? 

2. N'est-il pas matineux ? 
8. II est tres-matineux. 

4. lis ne sont pas tres-matineux. 

5. lis sont aussi matineux que moi, meme plus matineux peut-etre. 

6. Votre beau-frere est-il matineux ? 

*1. Oui, mais pas aussi matineux que vous. 

8. II est moins matineux que moi. 

9. II n'est pas si matineux que moi. 

10. Les Fran^ais sont-ils plus matineux que les Anglais ? 

11. Je pense qu'oui; mais, cependant, il y a bien des Fran9ais qui ne 
sont pas tres-matineux. 

12. Ne faut-il pas que vous et votre femme vous soyez aujourd'hui 
chez votre belle-mere avant cinq heures et demie ? 

13. Quelque matineux que vous soyez, votre pere, tout vieux qu'il est, 
Fest encore plus que vous. 

14. Bonjour,,mon cher ami: soyez le bienvenu ! 

15. Dites au domes tique, je vous prie, que mon fils est tres-matineux, 
et qu'il faut lui porter ses habits et ses bottines plus tot qu'il ne Fa fait 
hier. 

16. N'est-ce pas ^ sept heures et demie qu'il faut que vous soyez au 
chemin de fer ? — Oui, et meme plus tot, je pense. 

lY. N'est-ce pas que votre bonne est tres-matineuse ? — Oui, mais la 
femme de chambre ne Fest pas du tout. 

18. Cocher, soyez ici h> cinq heures, sans faute. 

19. Quoique vous soyez enrhume, je pense que vous pouvez aller faire 
une petite promenade avant le dejeuner : il fait si beau ce matin ! 



FEENCH. 97 

13. Do yovL know what is the price of this beautiful German book 
which your mother bought at the bookseller's in New Street to give as a 
present to Jier doctor's wife ? 

14. Did your mother's old English servant look as cross to-day as he 
did yesterday when he came to clear the table ? — No ; he looked in good 
humour. 

15. What is the name of this rich young EngHshman whose mother 
lives in Paris, near the Mint ?— His name is Baiik. 

16. Will you call with me to-morrow, or any other dav this week, on 
the young German physician whose mother lives in London, close by our 
house ?— Yes, my dear friend ; with great pleasure. 



FOURTEENTH SENTENCE. 

No. LXXYL 

1. Is he an early riser ? 

2. Is he not an early riser ? 

3. He is a very early riser. 

4. They are not very early risers, 

5. They are as early risers as I, even more so, perhaps. 

6. Is your brother-in-law an early riser ? - 

7. Yes ; but not so early as you. 

8. He is not so early a riser as I. 

9. He rises later than I. 

10. Are Frenchmen more early risers than Englishmen ? 

11. I think they are; but, however, there are many Frenchmen who 
are not very early risers, 

12. Must not you and your wife be at your mother-in-law's to-day, 
before half-past five ? 

13. However early a riser you may be, your father, old as he is, is still 
more so than you. 

14. Good morning, my dear friend ; welcome ! 

15. Tell the ssrvant, if you please, that my son is a very early riser, 
and that he must bring him his clothes and his boots sooner than he did 
yesterday. 

16. Must you not be at the railway at half-past seven? — Yes; and 
even sooner, *I think. 

17. Your nurse is a very early riser ; is she not ? — Yes ; but the 
lady's-maid is not at all so. 

18. Coachman, be here at five o'clock, without fail. 

19. Although you have ,a cold, I think that you may go and take a 
little walk before breakfast ; it is so fine this morning ! 

5 



98 THE MASTERY SERIES. 



No. LXXYII. 



je suis sur que vous ne I'etes pas ... 
/ am su7'e that you not it are not ... 

1. ]£tes-vous bien sur qu'il ne faut qu'une heure pour conduire men 
pere k I'Hotel de France et le ramener chez lui ? 

2. J'en suis sur : il ne faut meme pas une heure, 

3. Pourquoi n'etes-vous pas venu hier au soir chercher mes lettres 
pour les mettre a la poste ? 

4. Je ne suis pas venu parce que votre pere avait besoin de moi ; 
mais je suis venu les chercher ce matin de tres-bonne heure. 

5. Etes-vous sur d'avoir assez d'argent sur vous pour payer votre 
compte et le mien chez le libraire et chez le cordonnier ? 

6. J'en ai peut-etre assez, mais je n'en suis pas sur. 

7. !lStes-vous fran9ais ?— Non, je suis allemand. 

8. Et vous, vous etes anglais, je pense, mais vous n'en avez pas I'air. 

9. Etes-vous ministre ? — Non, je suis medecin ; c'est mon frere qui 
est ministre. 

10. Qui etes-vous, mon ami ? — Je suis le commissionnaire de I'hotel ; 
n'avez-vous pas quelque malle ou quelque paquet pour le chemin de fer ? 

11. Je suis bien sur maintenant, que votre medecin n'est plus en 
France, car il etait hier au soir chez mon beau-pere, avec sa femme et son 
petit garcon. 

12. ;fi]tes-vous sur que mon parapluie et mon ombrelle sont dans le 
fiacre ? — Je suis sur que Fun et I'autre y sont. 

13. Qui est-ce de si bonne heure ? Je suis sur que c'est mon ami 
Bank. 

14. Peut-etre bien ; il est si matincux ! Plus que je ne le suis, et plus 
que vous ne I'etes. Oui, c'est lui-meme. 

15. £tes-vous sure, ma fille, que les enfants sont dans leur chambre ? 



No. LXXVIIL 

autant que ce pauvre homme . = . 
as-much as this poor man . . . 

1. Donnez, je vous prie, cinquante centimes pour moi h. ce pauvre 
homme, car je n'ai pas de petite monnaie. 

2. Quel excellent homme que ce medecin allemand ! 

3. Oui, il est tres-bon, et, cependant, il ne Test pas autant que son 
frere, le ministre. 

4. Quelque matineuse que vous soyez, ma chere fille, je suis bien sur 
que vous ne Fetes pas autant que cette pauvre femme. 

5. Ob. demeure ce pauvre homme ? — Dans cette petite maison si vieille 
pres du chemin de fer. 

6. Le pauvre homme a perdu sa femme et ses enfants dans la meme 
semaine. 

Y. Ne serait-ce pas bien de donner quelque argent a ce pauvre 
homme ? — Oui ; je pense qu'il en a bien besoin. 

8. Vous pouvez lui donner plus que moiy car je n'ai pas autant d'ar- 
gent que vous. 



FRENCH. 99 



No. LXXYII. 

■ 1. Are you quite sure that it requires only an honr to take my father 
to the Hotel de France, and back again ? 

2. I am quite sure of it : it does not require even an hour. 

3. Why did you not come last night to get my letters for the post ? 

4. I did not come because your father wanted me ; but I came to get 
them this morning very early. 

5. Are you sure you have money enough about you to pay your ac- 
count and mine to the bookseller and bootmaker ? 

6. I have perhaps enough, but I am not quite sure of it. 
Y. Are you a Frenchman ? — No ; I am a German. 

8. And you are an Englishman, I suppose, but you do not look so. 

9. Are you a clergyman ? — No ; I am a physician ; it is my brother 
who is a clergyman. 

10. Who are you, my man ? — I am the porter of the hotel ; have you 
not a portmanteau or parcel for the railway ? 

11. I am quite sure now that your doctor is no longer in France, for 
he was yesterday evening at my father-in-law's, with his wife and his 
little boy. 

12. Are you sure that my umbrella and my parasol are in the cab ? — 
I am sure that both are there. 

13. Who is it so early ? I am sure it is my friend Baiih. 

14. Perhaps so ; he is such an early riser ! More so than I am, and 
than you are. Yes ; it is he. 

15. Are you sure, my girl, that the children are in their room? 



No. LXXYIII. 

1. Give fifty centimes for me to this poor man, if you please, as I 
have not any small change. 

2. What an excellant man this German physician is ! 

3. Yes, he is very good, and, nevertheless, he is not so much so as 
his brother, the clergyman. 

4. However early a riser you may be, my dear girl, I am quite sure 
that you are not so much so as this poor woman. 

5. Where does this poor man live ? — In that small old house near 
the railway. 

6. The poor man lost his wife and his children in the same week. 

'1. Would it not be well to give some money to this poor man ? — 
Yes ; I think that he is in great want of it. 

8. You may give him more than I, as I have not so much money as 
you. 



100 THE MASTERY SEEIES. 

9. Cette pauvre enfant a perdu son pere et sa mere ; elle n'a main- 
tenant que sa grand'mere, qui est tres-pauvre. 

11. Avez-vous autant de livres allemands que de livres fran9ais ? 

11. Non, je n'en ai pas autant. 

12. Youlez-vous autant de lait que de cafe ? 

13. Non, pas tout-a-fait autant; mettez plus de cafe que de lait. 

14. Quel homme vous faites ! Qu'avez-vous besoin maintenant d'un 
parapluie ? il fait tres-beau. 

15. N'est-ce pas un jeune homme qui est venu apporter ce que nous 
avons achete au bazar de la rue Neuve ? — Non, c'est un petit garQon. 

16. Napoleon n'est pas un homme grand ; * mais n'est-ce pas un grand 
homme ? 

No. LXXIX. 

qui, quelle que soit la saison, ... 
who^ what that may he the seasoUy . . . 

1. Je ne pense pas que son beau-frere soit aussi riche que lui. — Je 
ne le pense pas non plus. 

2. Faut-il que le cocher soit ici h sept heures ? — Oui, oui ; et m6me 
avant s'il pent. 

8. Dans quelle saison votre mere pense-t-elle aller i\ Paris ? 

4. Quelle est la bonne saison pour y aller ? ce n'est pas maintenant ? 

5. Non ; ce n'est pas encore la * saison ' de Paris. 

6. C'est maintenant la * saison ' de Londres. 

V. Quelque beau que soit ce papier, il ne Test pas autant que celui 
que j'ai achete la semaine derniere pres de la Banque. 

8. Eveillez mon frere de bonne heure, car il faut qu'il soit demain 
matin h Londres k sept heures et demie. 

9. Je pense aller avec mon frere passer la belle saison en France. 

10. Je ne pense pas que le facteur soit encore venu. 

11. Apportez-moi, je vous prie, un livre quel qu'il soit: fran9ais, 
anglais ou allemand. 

12. Quelque bon que soit le cafe a I'Hutel de Londres, il ne I'est pas 
autant qu'^ I'Hotel de Paris. 

13. Votre medecin pense-t-il que cette maison soit assez grande pour 
lui et sa famille ? Elle a I'air si petite ! 

14. Quelque matineux que soit votre frere, je ne pense pas qu'il le soit 
autant que notre ami Bank, Est-il matineux, ce cher gar9on ! 

No. LXXX. 

et quelque temps qu'il fasse . . . 

and whatever weather that it may make . . . 

1. Quel temps fait-il ? 

2. Ne fait-il pas beau temps ? 

3. Le temps est beau, tres-beau. 

4. Le temps n'est pas beau, n'est pas tres-beau. 

* Uh homme grand means in French a tall man ; un grand homme means a 
GREAT man. 



FEEKCH. 101 

9. This poor child has lost her father and mother ; she has now only 
her grandmother, who is very poor. 

10. Have you as many German books as French ones ? 

11. No, I have not so many. 

12. Will you have as much milk as cofFee ? 

13. No, not quite so much ; put in more coffee than milk. 

14. What a man you are ! What do you want now with an umbrella ? 
the weather is so fine. 

15. Was it not a young man who brought what we bought in the ba- 
zaar in New Street ? — No, it was a little boy 

16. Napoleon is not a tall man ; but is he not a great man ? 



No.LXXIX. 

1. I do not think his brother-in-law is as rich as he. — I do not think 
so either. 

2. Must the coachman be here at seven o'clock ? — Yes, yes ; and 
even before if he can. 

3. In what season does your mother intend to go to Paris ? 

4. Which is the best season to go there ? it is not now ? 

5. No ; it is not yet the Paris ' season.' 

6. It is now the London * season.' 

7. However beautiful this paper may be, it is not so much so as that 
which I bought last week near the Bank. 

8. Call my brother early, as he must be in London to-morrow morning 
at half-past seven. 

9. I think I shall go with my brother to spend (to pass) the fine 
season in France. 

10. I do not think the postman has come yet. 

11. Bring me, if you please, a book, whatever it may be, either 
French, English, or German. 

12. However good the coffee maybe at the Hotel de Londres, it is not 
so much so as at the Hotel de Paris. 

13. Does your doctor think that this house is large enough for him 
and his family ? It looks so small ! 

14. However early a riser your brother may be, I do not think that he 
is so much so as our friend Bank. What an early riser this dear fellow is ! 



No. LXXX, 

1. What kind of weather is it ? 

2. Is it not fine weather ? 

3. The weather is fine, very fine 

4. The weather is not fine, not very fine. 



102 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

5. Le temps est mauvais, tres-mauvais, tout-a-fait mauvais. 

6. Quel joli temps ! quel beau temps ! 

7. Quel mauvais temps ce matin ! 

8. Avez-vous le temps d'aller a la Grande Poste avant le dejeuner ? 

9. J'ai le temps d'y aller, et meme de faire une petite promenade en- 
suite. 

10. Yotre ami est venu en meme temps que mon beau-frere. 

11. Je pense que mon jeune frere se donne du bon temps k Paris. 

12. Combien de temps faut-il pour aller du Pont-Neuf au Gran 
Hotel ? pas une demi-heure ? — Non, je ne pense pas. 

13. Mon pere est tres-matineux : il fait tous les jours, quelque temps 
qu'il fasse, une promenade d'une heure avant son dejeuner. 

14. Vous pouvez faire du feu dans mon salon tous les jours, mais n'en 
faites dans ma chambre a coucher que de temps en temps {ou de temps 
k autre). 

15. Pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas que je fasse ce paquet maintenant? 

16. Parce que nous aurons le temps de le faire apres le dejeuner. 

17. Un livre fait passer le temps. 

18. II est bon d'avoir un livre quand il fait mauvais temps. 

19. Yotre fils est venu k temps pour dejeuner avec nous. 

20. Je n^ai pas le temps d'aller chercher mon parapluie ; voulez-vous 
me faire le plaisir d'aller me chercher ? 

21. Soit que je le fasse, ou que je ne le fasse pas, ne le dites pas a mon 
frere, je vous en prie. 



No. LXXXI. 

se leve toujours avant le soleil. 
himself rises always before the sun, 

1. Se leve-t-il a cinq heures et demie ? 

2. Ne se leve-t-il pas a sept heures ? 

3. II se leve de bon matin. 

4. II ne se leve pas avant six heures. 

5. Pourquoi se leve-t-il de si bon matin ? 

6. Pourquoi ne se leve-t-il pas avant son pere ? 

7. Fait-il du soleil? — II fait du soleil. II ne fait pas de soleil. 

8. Le soleil se leve a quatre heures, a cinq heures, etc. 

9. Pourquoi votre soeur ne se leve-t-elle pas aujourd'hui en meme 
temps que vous ? — Parce qu'elle est tres-enrhumee. 

10. Comment se fait-il que votre femme de chambre, qui est jeune, ne 
se leve pas de bonne heure ? 

11. Mon domestique, qui est vieux, se leva toujours a cinq heures, et 
elle ne se leve pas meme a sept. 

12. Que faut-il que je fasse pour qu'elle se leve plus tot? 

13. A quelle heure la bonne leve-t-elle les enfants ? 

14. A quelle heure se leve-t-elle elle-meme ? 

15. Quoique mon frere soit plus matineuxque moi, il ne se leve pas 
avant sept heures. 

16. Lorsque j'ai a payer quelque compte en monnaie frangaise, je 
donne toujours plus qu'il ne faut. 



FREXCH. 103 

5. The weather is bad, very bad, very bad indeed. 

6. What nice weather ! what fine weather ! 
'J. What bad weather this morning ! 

8. Have you time enough to go to the Chief Post-Oj0fice before 
breakfast ? 

9. I have time enough to go there, and even to take a little walk 
afterwards. 

10. Your friend has come at the same time as my brother-in-law. 

11. I think that my younger brother enjoys himself very much in Paris. 

12. How much time does it require to go from the Pont-Xeuf to the 
Grand-Hotel ? not half an hour ? — Xo, I think not. 

13. My father is a very early riser : he takes every day, whatever the 
weather may be, an hour's walk before his breakfast. 

14. You may hght a fire in my drawing-room every day, but do not 
light one in my bed-room except now and then. 

lo. Why do you not wish me to make that parcel up now ? 

16. Because we shall have time to make it up after breakfast. 

17. A book makes the time pass away. 

18. It is well to have a book when it is bad weather. 

19. Your son came in time to breakfast with us. 

20. I have no time to go for my umbrella ; will you do me the favour 
to go and fetch it ? 

21. Whether I do it or not, do not tell my brother, I beg of you. 



1. Does he get up at half-past five o'' clock? 

2. Does he not get up at seven o'clock ? 

3. He rises early. 

4. He does not rise before six o'clock. 
6. Why does he rise so early ? 

6. Why does he not get up before his father does ? 

7. Does the sun shine ? — The sun shines. The sun does not shine. 

8. The sun rises at four o'clock, at five o'clock, &c.- 

9. Why does not your sister get up to-day at the same time as you ? 
— Because she has a bad cold. 

10. How is it that your servant, who is young, does not get up 
early ? -• 

11. My man-servant:, who is old, rises always at five o'clock, and sLc 
does not rise even at seven. 

12. What must I do to make her rise sooner ? 

13. At what time does the nurse take the children out of bed ? 

14. At what time does she rise herself? 

15. Although my brother is a more early riser than myself, he does 
not get up before seven o'clock. 

16. When I am to settle an account in French money, I always give 
more than I should. 



104 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

17. Je suis matineux, mais, cependant, je ne me leve pas toujours 
avaiit ]e soleil, comme ce pauvre homme. 

18. Le soleil se leve de tres-bonne heure maintenant, avant quatre 
heures peut-etre. 

19. Je pense que, quelle que soit la saison, ie soleil se leve toujours 
apres lui. 

20. Apportez-moi toujours mes bottines quand vous m'apportez Teau 
chaude. 

21. Quel beau soleil ! Youlez-vous aller faire une promenade pres du 
pont de fer ? 



FIFTEENTH SENTENCE. 

I have been told by several tradesmen that you never take off your hat when 
you enter a shop^ and that you but very seldom say^ ' 8ir^^ ' Madam^ 
or *" Miss^ to the persons to whom you are speaking. 

No. LXXXIL 

On m'a dit chez plusieurs marchands . . . 

One to me has told at the house several tradesmen , , . 

1. Qu'est-ce qu'on dit ? 

2. On m'a dit que mon frere se leve de bonne heure. On leur a dit 
que cette dame est riche. 

3. On ne le dit pas. Pourquoi ne le dit-on pas ? 

4. Que ne dit-on pas ! 

5. Que vous a-t-on dit ? 

6. Qu'est-ce qu'on leur a dit ? 
1. Pourquoi vous Fa-t-on dit ? 

8. Quand vous Fa-t-on dit ? 

9. Oil vous Fa-t-on dit ? 

10. On lui a dit que plusieurs de mes habits sont tres-vieux; j*ai 
besoin de m'en faire faire de neufs avant d'aller en France. 

11. On m'a dit que les marchands frangais sont tres-matineux. 

12. II /a plusieurs jours que notre ami Bank n'est pas venu ; je pense 
qu'il est h. Paris. 

13. Qui est-ce qui vous a dit que c'est quatre francs qu'il faut donnet 
au cocher pour aller de votre hotel an chemin de fer ? Je suis sur que 
ce n'est que trois francs. 

14. C'est un de mes amis qui me Fa dit. 

15. N'avez-vous pas dit en passant h, La Rue d^envoyer chercher mes 
bottines et celles de ma soeur pour les elargir ? 

16. Je Fai dit h un jeune homme qui etait dans le magasin, et qui m'a 
dit qu'on les enverra chercher ce soir sans faute. 



FRENCH. 105 

17. I am an early riser, but, however, I do not rise always before the 
sun, like this poor man. 

18. The sun rises very early now, before four o'clock perhaps. 

19. I think that, whatever the season may be, the sun rises always 
after he does. 

20. Always bring me my boots when you bring me the hot water. 

21. What beautiful sun ! Will you go and take a walk near the iron 
bridge ? 



FIFTEENTH SENTENCE. 
No. LXXXII. 



1. What do they say ? 

2. I have been told that my brother rises early. They have been told 
that this lady is rich. 

3. They do not say so. Why do they not say so ? 

4. What do they not say ? 

5. What did they tell you ? 

6. What have they been told ? 
1. Why did they tell it to you ? 

8. When did they tell it to you ? 

9. Where did they tell it to you ? 

10. He has been told that several of my clothes are very old : I want 
to get some new ones made before going to France. 

11. I have been told that French shopkeepers are very early risers. 

12. Our friend JBank has not come for several days : I think he is in 
Paris. 

13. Who told you that you must give four francs to the cabman to go 
from your hotel to the railway ? I am sure it is but three francs, 

14. A friend of mine told me so. 

15. Did you not tell Za Rue on your way to send for my boots and my 
sister's to stretch them ? 

16. I told a young man who was in the shop, and who told me that 
they would send for them this evening without fail. 

5* 



106 THE MASTERY SERIES. 



No. LXXXIII. 

que vous n'otez jamais votre cJiapeau ... 

that you not take off ever your hat . , . 

1. Oil est mon chapeau ? 

2. Qu'avez-vous fait de mon chapeau ? 

8. Pourquoi avez-vous achete un chapeau si petit ? 

4. Je suis sur que c'est un chapeau fran^ais. 

5. Pas du tout ; c'est un chapeau anglais. 

6. Les chapeaux fran9ais sont grands maintenant. 

'7. Otez, je vous prie, mes livres de la grande malle, ainsi que ceux 
de ma mere et de ma soeur. 

8. Pourquoi n'otez-vous pas votre chapeau ? 

9. Yous n'otez jamais votre chapeau ; ce n'est pas bien. 

10. Youlez-vous m'appbrter mon chapeau et mon parapluie ? 

11. Apportez en meme temps le chapeau et I'ombrelle de ma soeur. 

12. N'otez pas vos bottines ; nous avons le temps d'aller faire une 
petite promenade d'une demi-heure avant le second dejeuner. 

13. N'avez-vous pas besoin d'un chapeau neuf ? Le votre h I'air bien 
vieux. 

14. ;fites-vous matineux ? — Non, je ne le suis pas ; je ne me leve jamais 
que bien apres sept heures. 

15. Le chapeau de ma soeur n'est-il pas plus joli que le mien ? 

16. EUe n'a jamais eu de chapeau si joli et k si bou marche. 

17. A quelle heure vous a-t-on dit qu'on m'enverra mon chapeau ? 

18. On m'a dit qu'on vous I'enverra tout-a-l'heure. 

19. Otez ce paquet du salon, et mettez-le dans la chambre de ma 
belle-fille avec son ombrelle et son chapeau. 

20. Quelle heure est-il maintenant ? cinq heures ? — Je n'en suis pas sur. 
— ^Yous ne savez jamais quelle heure il est. 



No. LXXXIY. 

lorsque vous entrez dans une boutique . . 
when you enter into a shop , . . 

1. Youlez-vous entrer avec moi dans la boutique ? 

2. Non, mon cher ami, je n'ai pas besoin d'y entrer. 

3. Je pense avoir perdu une piece de cinquante centimes dans cette 
petite boutique. 

4. Qui est dans la boutique maintenant ? le cordonnier ou sa femme ? 

5. II n'y a maintenant que son gar9on dans la boutique. 

6. Est-ce qu'une boutique n'est pas plus petite qu'un magasin ? 

7. Oui ; mais on dit maintenant en France ' magasin ' pour * boutique.' 

8. Otez votre chapeau lorsque vous entrez dans un magasin. 

9. On m'a dit que vous n'otez pas votre chapeau meme lorsque vous 
entrez daus le salon. 

10. Otez toujours votre chapeau lorsque vous entrez dans un salon. 



FRENCH. 107 

No. LXXXIIL 

1. Where is my bonnet ? 

2. What have you done with my hat ? 
S. Why did you buy so small a hat ? 

4. I am sure it is a French hat. 

5. Not at all ; it is an English hat 

6. French bonnets are large now, 

Y. Take off my books from the large portmanteau, if you please, as 
well as my mother's and my sister's. 

8. Why do you not take off your hat ? 

9. You never take off your hat ; it is not right, 

10. Will you bring me my hat and my umbrella ? 

11. Bring my sister's bonnet and parasol at the same time. 

12. Do not take off your boots; we have time to take a little walk for 
half an hour before lunch. 

13. Do you not want a new hat ? Yours looks very old. 

14. Are you an early riser ? — No, I am not ; I never get up till much 
after seven o'clock. 

15. Is not my sister's bonnet prettier than mine ? 

16. She never had a bonnet so pretty and so cheap. 

17. At what time did they say they would send my hat ? 

18. They told me they would send it to you directly. 

19. Take away this parcel from the drawing-room, and put it in my 
daughter-in-law's bed-room, with her parasol and her bonnet. 

20. What time is it now? — five o'clock? — I am not certain. — You 
never know what time it is. 



No. LXXXIY. 

1. Will you go with me into the shop ? 

2. No, my dear friend ; I do not want to go in. 

3. I think I have lost a fifty -centime piece in this small shop. 

4. Who is in the shop now ? the bootmaker or his wife ? 

5. There is only his assistant in the shop. 

6. Is not a ' boutique ' smaller than a ' magaisin ? ' 

7. Yes ; but they now say in France ' magasin ' instead of ' boutique.' 

8. Take off your hat when you enter a shop. 

9. I have been told that you do not take off your hat when you enter 
a drawing-room. 

1 0. Always take off your hat when you enter a drawing-room. 



108 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

11. Ma malle ne peut-elle pas entrer dans le fiacre? — Non ; mais le 
paquet peut tres-bien y entrer. 

12. Votre cordonnier est venu ; il est dans I'autre chambre — Fort 
bien ; vous pouvez le faire entrer. 

13. Faites entrer mon ami dans le salon et le medecin dans ma cham- 
bre a coucher. 

14. Pourriez-vous me dire ou est la boutique de ce pauvre homme qui 
a perdu sa femme et ses deux enfants la semaine derniere ? 

15. II n'a plus de boutique maintenant ; il est commissionnaire al'Ho- 
tel de Paris. 

16. Entrez en passant chez ma belle-fille, et demandez-lui k quelle 
heure elle m'enverra les enfants. 



No. LXXXV. 

et que vous ne dites que fort rarement .... 
a7id that you not say hut very rarely .... 

1. Que dites-vous ? 

2. A qui le dites-vous ? 

8. Pourquoi le dites-vous ? 

4. Yous le lui dites toujours. 

5. Vous ne me le dites jamais. 

6. II est bien rare que j^aie besoin de demander h un cocher de fiacre 
la monnaie d'un napoleon ou d'une piece de dix francs. 

'7. Un cocher de fiacre a bien rarement de la monnaie ; on peut meme 
dire qu'il n'en a jamais. 

8. Lorsqu'il en a, il est bien rare qu'il le disc. 

9. L'allemand n'est pas mon fort, et je ne pense pas non plus que ce 
soit le votre. 

10. Ce petit pot d'argent est fort joli ; est-ce celui dont votre belle- 
mere vous a fait cadeau V 

11. On fait le cafe tres-fort h Paris. 

12. Vous pensiez etre pres du Fort Napoleon, mais vous en etes encore 
bien loin. 

13. J'ai achete fort rarement dans le grand magasin de la rue Neuve; 
tout y est tres-cher. 

14. Mon beau-frere est plus grand que mon frere, mais je ne pense 
pas qu'il soit aussi fort. 

15. La bonne allemande, toute jeune qu'elle est, est plus forte que le 
domestique fran9ai3. 

16. Ce n'est pas sur; elle est peut-etre aussi forte que lui, mais plus 
forte, je ne le pense pas. 

17. II est bien rare que vous otiez votre chapeau lorsque vous entrez 
dans un magasin. 

18. On le fait k Paris, mais fort rarement a Londres. 



FBEKCH. 109 

11. Cannot my portmanteau go in the cab?— No; but the parcel can 
very well. 

12. Your bootmaker has come ; he is in the next room. — Very well ; 
you may show him in. 

13. Show my friend into the drawing-room, and the doctor into my 
bed-room. 

14. Could you tell me where the shop of this poor man is who lost his 
wife and his two children last week ? 

15. He has no shop now ; he is a porter in the Hotel de Paris. 

IG. Go, on your way, to my daughter-in-law's, and ask her when she 
will send me the children. 



No. LXXXY. 



1. What do you say? 

2. To whom do you tell it ? 

3. Why do you say it ? 

4. You always say it to him. 

5. You never say it to me. 

6. It is but very seldom that I need ask a cabman for the change of 
a napoleon, or half a napoleon. 

Y. A cabman has but very seldom any change ; we may even say 
that he has never any. 

8. When he has any, it is but very seldom he says it. 

9. German is not my forte, and I do not think it is yours either. 

10. This little silver pitcher is very pretty ; is it the one of which your 
mother-in-law made you a present ? 

11. They make coffee very strong in Paris. 

12. You thought you were near the Fort Napoleon, but you are still 
very far from it. 

13. It is but very seldom I have bought any thing in the large shop in 
New Street ; every thing is very dear there. 

14. My brother-in-law is taller than my brother, but I do not think he 
is so strong. 

15. The German nurse, young as she is, is stronger than the French 
man-servant. 

16. That is not certain; she is perhaps as strong as he, but I do not 
think any stronger. 

lY. It is but very seldom you take off your hat when you enter a shop. 
18. They do so in Paris, but very seldom in London. 



110 THE MASTERY SEEIES. 



No. LXXXYI. 

* Monsieur,' * madame/ ou ' mademoiselle ' . . . 

* JSir^'* * madam^^ or * miss ' . . . 

1. Bonjour, monsieur. 

2. Bonsoir, madame. 

8. Entrez, mademoiselle. 

4. Que dites-vous, madame ? 

5. Pourriez-vous me dire, monsieur, ou est la Grande Poste ? n'est-ce 
pas dans cette rue ? 

6. Oui, madame ; vous en etes tout pres. 

'7. II est venu ce matin un monsieur pour vous. 

8. Comment se nomme-t-il ? — Monsieur Bank. 

9. Avez-vous, madame, la monnaie d'un napoleon. 

10. Je.pense qu'oui; la voulez-vous, monsieur, en petites pieces ? 

11. Oui, madame ; en pieces d'un franc et de cinquante centimes, si 
vous pouvez. 

12. Onnedit jamais en anglais 'monsieur,' ' madame,' et* mademoiselle.' 

13. Paut-il apporter a monsieur ses habits et ses bottines avec son eau 
chaude ? 

14. Monsieur La Rue est frangais, mais sa femme est anglaise. 

15. Avez-vous besoin, monsieur, de papier k lettre ? Nous en avons 
de tres-beau. 

16. Non, mademoiselle, je n'en ai pas besoin ; je n'ai besoin aujourd'hui 
que de papier buvard et de plumes metalliques. 

17. Monsieur, pourquoi ne voulez-vous aller chez Madame Bank 
qu'apres le second dejeuner ? 

18. Parce que, madame, je ne pense pas que ce soit bien d'y aller 
auparavant ; peut-etre aussi ne serait-elle pas chez elle ? 

19. Savez-vous, madame, comment se nomme ce vieux monsieur ? 

20. Lequel, celui qui est pres de cette jeune dame ? c'est Monsieur 
Bank pere. 



No. LXXXYII. 

aux personnes a qui vous parlez . . . 
to-the persons to whom you are-speaking . . . 

1. A qui parlez-vous, monsieur ? 

2. Me parlez-vous, madame ? 

3. Lui parlez-vous ? Leur parlez-vous ? 

4. Parlez-lui fran9ais ; il n'est pas anglais. 

5. Parlez-vous aussi bien fran9ais qu'allemand ? 

6. Otez toujours votre chapeau, mon cher ami, lorsque vous parlez k 
une dame. 

Y. Plusieurs personnes m'ont dit que vous ne le faites que fort rare- 
ment. 

8. Bites aux personnes qui sont au salon que ma soeur ne peut pas y 
aller encore. 

9. II est venu hier au soir deux ou trois personnes vous demander 



FKENCH, 111 

No. LXXXYI. 

1. Good morning, sir. 

2. Good evening, madam. 

3. Walk in, miss. 

4. What do you say, madam. 

5. Could you tell me, sir, where is the Chief Post-Office ; is it not in 
this street. 

6. Yes, madam, you are quite near it. 

'7. A gentleman came for you this morning. 

8. What is his name ?— Mr. Bank. 

9. Have you, madam, the change for a napoleon ? 

10. I think I have ; do you wish, sir, to have it in small coins ? 

11. Yes, madam; in one-franc, and fifty-centime pieces, if you can. 

12. They never say ' sir,' ' madam,' and ' miss,' in English. 

13. Must I bring you, sir, your clothes and your boots with your hot 
water ? 

14. Mr. La Rue is a Frenchman, but his wife is English. 

15. Do you want, sir, any note paper ? We have some very fine. 

16. No, miss, I do not want any ; I only want to-day blotting-paper 
and steel pens. 

17. Why will you not go to Mrs. Bank's till after lunch ? 

18. Because I think it is not well to go before ; perhaps also she would 
not be at home. 

19. Do you know, madam, what is the name of that old gentleman ? 

20. Which, the one who is near this young lady ? it is Mr. Bank, 
Senior. 



No. LXXXYII. 

1. To whom are you speaking, sir ? 

2. Do you speak to me, madam ? 

3. Do you speak to him ? Do you speak to them ? 

4. Speak French to him ; he is not English. 

5. Do you speak French as well as German ? 

6. Always take off your hat, my dear fellow, when you speak to a 
lady. 

1. Several persons told me that you do it but very seldom. 

8. Tell the persons who are in the drawing-room that my sister cannot 
go there yet. 

9. Two or three persons came last night to ask for you. 



112 THE MASTERY SEEIES. 

10. Qui sont ces personnes ? savez-vous ? 

11. Les m ernes personnes qui sont venues il y a quatre ou cinq jours. 

12. S'il fait assez beau demain matin, eveillez-moi de bonne beure, car 
j'ai besoin d'aller chez deux ou trois personnes avant le dejeuner; mais 
faites auparavant du feu, d'abord dans ma chambre a coucher, et ensuite 
dans mon salon, parce que je suis tres-enrhume. 

13. On m'a dit chez plusieurs personnes que le libraire fran9ais — 
Monsieur Petit, n'est-ce pas ainsi qu'il se nomme ? — a achete la semaine 
derniere cette grande et belle maison tout pr^s de la Banque. 

14. Ctez votre chapeau quand vous entrez dans un magasin, ainsi que 
lorsque vous parlez aux personnes qui y sont. 

15. II y a bien des personnes qui sont plus riches que cette vieille 
dame, mais pas une peut-etre qui soit aussi bonne. 



FEENCH. 113 

10. Who are those persons ? do you know ? 

11. The same persons who called four or five days ago. 

12. If it is fine enough to-morrow morning, call me early, as I want to 
go to two or three people's houses before breakfast ; but before that 
light a fire, first in my bed-room, and afterwards in my sitting-room, 
because I have a bad cold. 

13. I have been told at several persons' houses that the French book- 
seller—Mr. Petit, is not that his name ?— bought last week that fine large 
house quite near the Bank. 

14. Take off your hat when you enter a shop, as well as when you are 
speaking to the persons who are in it. 

15. There are many persons who are richer than this old lady, but not 
one, perhaps, who is so kind. 



ADDITIONAL SEl!TTEN'CES TO BE WORKED OUT BY 
THE LEARKER HIMSELF. 

1. Comment se fait-il que votre cousin, ayant passe pres de six mois 
a Boulogne, sache a peine dire ' Comment vous portez-vous ' en fran9ais ? 

How is it that your cousin, having spent nearly six months at 
Boulogne, can scarcely say, ^ How do you do ' in French ? 

2. Si le cheval que vous venez de me montrer etait k moi, je m'en 
servirais, non comme cheval de selle, mais comme cheval de trait. 

If the horse which you have just shown me were mine, I should use 
it, not as a saddle-horse, but as a draught-horse. 

3. N'est-ce pas dans I'lnde qu'est nee cette dame si brune que vous 
nous avez presentee a la soiree de I'ambassadeur d'Espagne ? 

Was it not in India that that very dark lady was born whom you 
introduced to us at the Spanish ambassador's party ? 

4. N'avais-je pas raison de vous dire que le premier convoi direct 
pour Windsor ne partait qu'^ dix heures un quart, et non a neuf 
heures, comme vous vous rimaginiez ? 

Was I not right in telling you that the first direct train for Windsor 
started at a quarter-past ten, and not at nine, as you thought ? 

5. Quoique je n'aie ni faim ni soif, j'ai grande envie d'accepter votre 
invitation d'aller dejeuner au restaurant avec vous, pour causer ensemble 
des nouvelles du jour. 

Although I am neither hungry nor thirsty, I have a great mind to 
accept your invitation to go and breakfast with you at a restaurant, to 
talk over the news of the day. 

6. Ne trouvez-vous pas extraordinaire que ma cousine, qui a trois ans 
de moins que ma soeur ainee, sois plus grande qu'elle de toute la tete ? 

Do you not think it extraordinary that my cousin, who is three years 
younger than my eldest sister, should be a whole head taller than she ? 

7. Si votre frere cadet a maintenant quarante ans, quel age avait-il 
done la premiere fois qu'il est alle a la Jamaique ? 

If your younger brother is now forty, how old was he the first time 
he went to Jamaica ? 

8. Le ruban qu'on vous a fait payer cinq francs le metre a Paris ne 
vaut pas de beaucoup celui-ci qui ne me coute que trois francs k Lyon. 

The ribbon for which you were charged five francs the metre in Paris 
is not nearly so good as this, which cost me only three in Lyons. 



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THE 

MASTERY OF LANGUAGES; 

OR, 

THE ART OF 

SPEAXma FOREIGN TONGUES IDIOMATICALLY, 

By THOMAS PREKDERGAST, 

LATE 2IADEAS CIVIL SERVICE. 



I. HANDBOOK TO THE MASTESY SERIES, 50 Cents. 

II. THE MASTEEY SEEIES.-ERENCH, 60 Cents. 

III. THE MASTERY SERIES -GERMAN, 50 Cents. 

IV. THE MASTERY SERIES -SPANISH, 50 Cents. 



OPINIONS OF FOREIGN JOURNALS: 

^^ PrendergasP s Mastery Series is tlie name of a collection of little books 
designed for the teaching of foreign languages on what we are sure Mr, 
Lowe would call the true principle. That principle may be explained in 
a line — it is first learning the language and then studying the grammar, 
instead of first studying the grammar and then learning — or trying to 
learn — the language. We are with Mr. Prendergast wholly, and can cor- 
dially recommend his German and French instruction books." — Morning 
Star, 

"Among the many educational books noticed by us, those of Mr. 
Thomas Prendergast are not the least valuable. This" plan is designed to 
secure economy of time and labor, by compressing a great deal of the lan- 
guage into a small compass, and excluding every thing not essential. "We 
can heartily commend them."— e7c»A?i Bull. 

" The object of the author of this series of Manuals is to facilitate ths 
learning of a foreign language by pursuing the course which Nature seems 
clearly to indicate as the proper one. ... By steadily pursuing the course 
prescribed by the author, the pupil will easily and*^ speedily acquire the 
power of using the idiomatic forms of a foreign language as fiuently and 
promptly as those of his mother tongue." — BelVs Messenger, 

*'Mr. Prendergast leaves no stone unturned to endeavor to make his 
theoiy clear, and he argues it out with such power and truth that one can- 
not help going along with him, feeling that his statements are sensible 
and just.'' — JJiihlin Evening Mail. 



11 THE MASTERY SERIES. 

" The question is suggested, therefore, in making ourselves acquainted 
with a foreign idiom, should we hegin or end by studying its grammar ? 
Should we not first ascertain what that idiom is, and afterward classify 
the facts ascertained ? Should we not, in short, prefer the inductive to 
the deductive process ? It was Mr. Prendergast's experience in India that 
led him to ponder whether the natural system of acquiring a command of 
language did not possess an intrinsic superiority over the ordinary plan. He 
came to the conclusion that to know how two or three hundred words should 
be arranged in all possible combinations in any given language is to have 
a practical commander * mastery' of that language. ... "We know that 
there are some who have given Mr. Prendergast's plan atrial, and dis- 
covered that, in a very few weeks, its results had surpassed all their antici- 
pation." — Record, 

" We have argued the subject in our own mind, but we must frankly 
confess that we have found all our objections answered in an apparently 
satisfactory manner in the ' Handbook.' ... In so far as we are enabled 
to judge, the ' Mastery System' is worthy of an unprejudiced trial." — 
Greenock Advertiser, 

*' Mr. Prendergast's * Mastery System' for the learning of foreign lan- 
guages appears to have been partially adopted by M. Duruy, the French 
Minister of Public Instruction, who has found that it is much easier to 
teach a pupil to speak a foreign language than to teach him to read it with 
fluency. Under the more natural system which is now pursued in the 
public schools, it appears from the Bulletin Administratis de V Instruction 
Publique that the number of pupils who can speak a foreign language has 
doubled. ' ' — Academia, 

"*The Mastery System ' is the term applied by Mr. Prendergast to a 
method, which he would probably say that Nature invented, but which he 
has analyzed and applied, of speaking foreign languages idiomatically. . . . 
A week's patient trial of the French Manual has convinced us that the 
method is sound, and will, if patiently followed, lead to the result pro- 
posed. The Handbook is well named, and contains many suggestions of 
great interest upon the various methods in use of acquiring a knowledge 
of foreign tongues. ... It is worthy of attentive study, and, as a most 
thoughtful analysis of the attitude and action of the mind in acquiring 
the power of speech, must interest every one who loves education, whether 
he wish or not to apply the method to help himself in becoming a lin- 
guist." — Pajoersfor the Schoolmaster, 

"At a moment when the old methods of education, whether special 
or general, are being duly overhauled, Mr. Prendergast's views on so im- 
portant a subject as the best mode of teaching, and the readiest way of ac- 
quiring languages, ought not to be overlooked." — Leader, 

" The principle on which the system is based is in direct opposition to 
the old-fashioned notion that the study of grammar is the proper intro- 
duction to a language. . . . The simplicity and naturalness of the system 
are obvious, and we commend it to the attention of philologists and 
students." — Midland Counties Herald (Birmingham). 

" To say that a man shall not learn a language before learning its gram- 
mar is as agreeable to common-sense as the remark of the Irishman, that 
he would never venture into the water before he had learned to swim. . . . 
But where the facts are not only palpable, but even easier to be learned 
than the theory, we hold it to be sheer waste of toil to learn the theory 
first. Learn logic, mathematics, history, to exercise the mind, while the 
process of learning languages is lasting ; afterward grammar will take its 
proper place as an adjunct to them, and will illustrate logic, and be 



OPINIONS OF THE PEESS. lU 

illustrated by it in turn. . . . Mr. Prendergast, in Ms handbook to tlie 
* Mastery Series,' lucidly and forcibly sets forth the faults of the old sys- 
tem, and gives many most useful hints for the formation of a new one. 
. . . AYe join with Mr. Prendergast in his regrets that Latin is now no 
longer cultivated as a spoken language ; and would suggest that, if ever it 
should be destined to regain its place as the common language of culti- 
vated men of different countries in their mutual intercourse, it should 
be on the system which Mr. Prendergast has ably expounded that it be 
learned. 'We would willingly see a handbook to Latin on the modern 
plan from his pen." — Edinburgh Courant. 

" A philosophical work on the ' Mastery of Languages.' " — Fa'^er read 
lefore the Church Schoolmasters' Association^ hy Mr, Balder. 

'* Nothing is perhaps more greatly coveted than the power oi speaking 
foreign tongues, and yet how few there are who attain it ! . . . The point 
in dispute is, when the grammar should be used. Kobody pretends that a 
perfect acquaintance with a language can be gained in any case without 
studying a systematic exposition of its principles ; but the question is, 
should the philosophy of a language be studied before learning its chief 
words and idioms ? Mr. Prendergast says no, and has defended his posi- 
tion at great length, and with great skill. ... To gain a thorough com- 
mand of the common phrases which the majority use exclusively, and all 
men use chiefly, is the goal at which the ' Mastery System ' aims, and we 
think that that goal can be reached by its means more easily and in a 
shorter time than by any method yet made known. . . . With such a 
preparation the Englishman may go abroad and open his mouth confi- 
dently, . . . We know of no oth^er plan which will infallibly lead to this 
result in a reasonable time, and therefore we heartily recommend the ' Mas- 
tery System.' Manuals of the French and German have been published, 
and the method will no doubt be applied to other languages." — JSorfolk 
Neios. 

"If Mr. Prendergast will publish a selection of sentences, with speci- 
. mens of their manipulation, and an abridged table of inflections, he may 
easily find readers who will give his theory a fair trial ; and we are strongly 
disposed to believe that the result of such an experiment would be a very 
general adoption of the principles on which the ' Mastery of Languages ' 
is based." — The Reader, 

"Excellent in the main, and worthy of attention from every^ one inter- 
ested in the ' Mastery of Languages.' Set forth with much lucid explana- 
tion and many skilful arguments." — Examiner. 

" This is a book written with understanding. ... It is not, like many 
other treatises, a favorite idea, inflated by all manner of devices and ac- 
commodations to the bulk of a volume ; it is a system carefully and philo- 
sophically deduced from the author's own experience and observation." — 
Daily News. 

" This system possesses many excellent features." — London Beview. 

" This book is very full, and deserves attention ; its pages are crowded 
with suggestive remarks. . . . The wiiter is entitled to the attention of 
philologists and teachers of language." — Athenoeum. 

" We can recommend this method from personal experience, having had 
the pleasure of trying it ourselves. Two hundred words of a language 
previously unknown, combined in idiomatic sentences, were duly mastered 
in the way proposed, by studying them five minutes at a tune, 'five or six 
times a day, and, when permission was given to refer to a grammar, great 
was the astonishment as well as the delight felt, on discovering that the 
rules of syntax were known already." — Female Missionary Intelligencer. 



IV THE MASTEKY SERIES. 

" Curious and interesting book . . . clear and lively in its treatment. 
. . . Eull of useful hints. ... As a rule, the older the facts, the greater 
the originality. It therefore appears to us that Mr. Prendergast deserves 
the highest credit for the rare novelty with which he has invested a 
thoroughly trite theme. . . . He works out the leading principles with 
the most rigorous and unflinching logic, to their ultimate conclusions. 
Nothing can really be simpler or more practical than the principle upon 
which it is based." — Madras AtJiencBum, 



OPi:^IOHS OF THE PRESS IN THE UNITED STATES. 

*' What have we, in fact, in Prendergast's 'Mastery Series' but an 
adoption, and we are ready to suppose an improvement, on the old middle- 
age ' Colloquies of Corder^? ' We believe it is the true method of learn- 
ing languages. The learning of the right use of right words must be a 
question of memory of words till it becomes a matter of habit. Eeason, 
or understanding, except as connected with memory, has precious little to 
do with it." — Freeman's Journal, 

" Mr. Prendergast's ' Mastery System ' of teaching languages, which has 
recently been introduced in England, and met there with the most extraor- 
dinary success, is truly a marvel of simplicity and ingenuity; and we 
cannot too strongly urge teachers and students of German and French to 
give the above-named manuals a trial. Teachers will find that this new 
system considerably lessens their arduous task, and that it offers more 
guarantees of speedy and certain success than any of the old theories ; and 
the students will not have to burden their minds with all that mass of un- 
necessary rubbish with which most of the French and German grammars 
now in use abound ; and will, after a comparatively short time, not only be 
able to read the languages, but to speak and pronounce them correctly." — 
Lafayette Courier, 

" The system is as near as can be the one in which the child learns to 
talk, adapted to the adult, and, if carefully preserved, must be successful.'* 
— Troy Whig, 

"When any one remembers the vast amount of time, labor, and money, 
often expended in schools in actually gaining very little practical knowl- 
edge of foreign languages, this method is entitled to an examination. Evi- 
dently, much can be done by the proposed plan." — 8t, Louis Democrat, 

" We do not hesitate to venture the opinion that, if Mr. Prendergast's 
works can be brought to the attention of teachers in this country, they will 
effect a great change in the method of teaching foreign languages." — The 
Nation, 

" The Handbook lucidly sets forth the principles of the system, which 
seeks to attain the power of using the idiomatic forms of a foreign language 
as fluently and promptly as those of the mother tongue." — Providence Press, 

" There can be no doubt that this system is peculiarl;y' adapted to be 
serviceable to that multitude of adult Americans who, without any pre- 
liminary preparation of study, steam over to Europe and back, as one of 
the acts without which the drama of life would be incomplete. To this 
class of travellers, and for their special use, we cannot too warmljr com- 
mend the new system which Mr. Prendergast has so ingeniously devised." 
— Worcester 8^y, 



CPIXIOXS OF THE PKESS. V 

" The system is attractive fromtlie first, and we would advise all who 
are about to begin the study of French, or German to give it a tliorough 
trial." — Rochester Democrat. 

" There is a delightful novelty about the theory which is quite charm- 
ing, and which seems to have a solid basis of truth to rest upon." — Boston 
Congregationalist. 

" We should judge that it possesses important advantages over the 
ordinary methods, for those who desire to learn to speak albreign lan- 
guage quickly and fluently." — Springfield BepuUican. 

" The chief feature is the selection of some long sentence thoroughly 
committed to memory, and evolving shorter sentences, or variations, from 
the words of which it is composed, simply by re-arrangement. Grammar- 
is deferred till the language is learned. This plan is somewhat difi'erent from 
the Ollendorliian method, inasmuch as the latter mingles grammar with 
the exercises." — Gosjjel Afessenger. 

*'Itis certainly a startling innovation, but Mr. Prendergast makes out a 
very strong and clear case, and his method should receive a fair and 
thorough trial." — FldladeljpTda Iiuiuirer, 

"It may not be improper for me to state that I made it my first duty, on 
arriving in Germany, to apply myself to the study of the German language, 
that I might, to some extent at least, be able to\mderstand what I was^to 
hear in tlie German deaf-mute schools, and to communicate with Germans 
without relying in all cases on the assistance of interpreters. And I feel 
that I owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Thomas Prendergast, of London, \j 
the aid of whose valuable suggestions, as set forth in his able work on the 
'Mastery of Languages' . . ". I was enabled, in a comparatively limited 
period, to attain a fluency in conversational German which was of incalcu- 
lable assistance in the prosecution of my work in Europe." — Tentli Annual 
Beport offhe President of tlie Columlia Institution^ Kew Yorlc^ to tlie United 
States Government, 



0PI1TI02TS OF THE FRENCH JOUSIfALS. 

"^Les modeles de phrases, les tournures idiomatiques, les expressions 

ont ete choisis avec un soin scrupuleux et im gout eclair e C' est la 

conversation, c'est la causerie de salon qu'il pratique, qu'il obtient." . . . 

" Quant a la partie technique, elle cede le pas a la partie pratique, 
Bvmptome essentiellement anglais : ce peuple-la veut des resultats et les 
obtient par sa tenacite et sa resolution." . . . 

"La grammaire, suivant notre philologue, qui parle ex catliedra, en 
s'appuyant sur une synthese fortement raisoimee selon le mode de Bacon, 
ct sur une experience dejabien etendue de son systeme ; la grammaire que 



theoriquement, 



"L'idee philosophique qui explique et soutient ce systeme si nouveau 
trouve developpeo dans la partie du traite intitulce ' Handbook.' "— 



sc trouve developpeo dans la part: 
Bevne Iritannique 



VI THE MASTEEY SERIES. 

"Les professeurs do langues et les phUologues trouveront dans les 
petits traites de M. Thomas Prendergast tout un systeme fort original de 
Part si difficile del'enseignement pratique, natur el et rationnel des langues 
vivantes. Le probleme de I'acquisition par un etranger de la conversation, 
de la causerie familiere, est dans la premiere partie pose, analyse, discute 
et resolu en dehors de toute routine, avec des vues nouvelles, avec la force 
de la conviction raisonnee, avec 1' eclat du succes accompli. L' application 
de cette methode, aussi simple qu'efficace, est I'objet d'un opuscule d'une 
centaine de pages pour chaque langue. Au moyen d'une centaine demots 
choisis avec discernement, par I'emploi scientifiquement combine de cer- 
taines tournures de phrases generales ou speciales, avec une petite table 
synoptique des parties variables du discours, un eleve intelligent, patient, 
observateur, pent acquerir en pen de temps I'art de parler, d'ecrire et de 
causer : telle est meme I'elasticite de ce systeme, que la science du langage, 
la grammaire^j se cree et se constitue dans 1' esprit de 1' eleve aussi naturefle- 
ment, aussi surement que son application." — La Colonne, 

"La connaissance des langues etrangeres est une des questions que les 
besoins internationaux mettent de plus en plus a I'ordre du jour. Ce 
probleme, I'un des plus ardus de 1' education, combien de fois n'a-t-il pas 
ete pose, combien de fois resolu ! M. Thomas Prendergast nous en offre 
une solution fort originale dans sa ' Mastery Series.' 11 pose, discute et 
resout victorieusement le probleme de la conversation et de la science autre 
que la langue maternelle. La theorie de ce systeme, contenue dans le 
' Handbook,' est exposee avec ampleur et conviction ; tous ceux qui s'occu- 
pent de I'enseignement y trouveront des vues originales, des idees qui 
sortent de notre routine journaliere. La demonstration pratique faite pour 
chaque langue est I'objet d'un autre opuscule, ou ceux qui veulent appren- 
dre se voient tout d'abord delivres du grand epouvantail des commen- 
Qants — Pas de grammaire ! L'auteur choisit une centaine de mots,les plus 
importants et les plus usuels : ce sont les corps simples de sa chimie philo- 
logique. II les combine et les travaille en suivant, en appliquant, en imi- 
tant les tournures de ;^hrase essentielles a la langue.^ Ces combinaisons, 
variees augre des besoins ou de 1' imagination, se multiplient al'infini. La 
grammaire, qui est pour 1' eleve une science, ajpriori^ se produit alors dans 
son esprit comme le resultat synthetique de ses observations et de ses 
etudes. En unmot, c'est le systeme le plus pratique que laphilologie ait 
produit pour I'enseignement des langues etrangeres."— Z'/w^ar^ia? de 
Boulogne-sur-Mer, 



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